I would like to install ubuntu on a mac instead of running OSX. How Can I do this?
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you'll need rEFIt to be able to do the dual boot.
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1Your webpage says its no longer maintained and has a link to this. (rodsbooks.com/refind) is this the same thing? Mar 8, 2014 at 3:20
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You do not need refit or refind to boot ubuntu from a mac if you are doing a single boot. In fact grub2 can handle booting of osx and ubuntu so it's not necessary at all.
Advice getting native ubuntu on mbp from experience:
- Back up your data.
- Create an OSX recovery disk/usb found here.
- Boot recovery disk and use diskutility to reformat and repartition the drive. You will need a partition for the filesystem and another for a swap partition.
- Reboot into live cd - select something else - make sure your installation will not touch the EFI partition. Change the option to "Do not use".
- Install ubuntu but do not reboot (continue testing). You may get an error during installation about being unable to install a bootloader, ignore it for now and continue.
- Run boot-repair (available here) and follow instructions to install grubEFI.
Thats it, you can now reboot and enjoy ubuntu running natively on a mbp.
NOTE: If you are wishing to have a dual boot then follow the steps above without deleting or reformatting your osx partition. Grub will detect the osx efi once you have run boot-repair.