I am simply trying to install a single boot system with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my old MacBook Pro 4,1. (Also tried 17.04 but I get an error that APT not working)
There are a few issues but the one that seems to be the most problematic is that the Grub does not install correctly.
I have tried doing the regular install on the drive and letting Ubuntu installer create the partitions etc. Much like the accepted answer here... EFI boot Ubuntu 14.04 on a Mac without rEFInd And that did not work.
I tried creating my own partitions much like this 16.04 new installation gives grub-efi-amd64-signed failed installation /target/ ubuntu 16.04 at the end and here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI#Creating_an_EFI_System_Partition
What I did was with Gparted on the try ubuntu I formated to drive to the following
fat32 size 250mb flags boot, esp
ext4 size 10000mb
linux-swap 4096mb
ext4 size 200gb
And then specifying in the installation process that the fat32 is an efi partition the ext4 is / and the second ext4 is /home
Set the boot installation location to the EFI
and I get this error: grub-efi-amd64-signed failed installation /target/
and then crashes the installer.
I am connected to the network, I have chosen to install 3rd Party Software and Update the ubuntu during the install.
I have also tried to setup the drive partitions alone in the ubuntu installer and same results.
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
Okay so I was able to install 17.04 following these instructions which solved the CD error... https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=126351
but now I am stuck at the following /dev/sda2: clean, 222460/14622720 files, 3071159/58476288 blocks
I tried nomodeset just like I had to to get the usb ubuntu to work, but it did not fix it. Any ideas?
EDIT 2: Reinstalled again, and updated everything this time around. Still nothing. Also tried to boot into GFX Safe Mode and Also nothing beisdes a blinking cursor
EDIT 3
I was able to get in. I followed this post, Blank screen Ubuntu 15.04 update with NVIDIA driver (nomodeset does not work), but when I reinstalled the nvidia drivers it stopped working again. And that does not seem ideal to run without the GFX Card. So is there something wrong with the NVidia-340 driver?