Yesterday I've decided to try Ubuntu 13.04 on my MacBook Air, within a day i really love and enjoy it!
So, I followed every step by step instructions on the Internet. Installation process run just fine…
In "something else" section I make:
- dev/sda1 efi
- dev/sda2 ext4 /
- dev/sda3 ext4 /home
After installation completed, I restart my Mac and nothing appear. Just white screen and folder with "question mark" on it.
I think I repeated my installation setup about 20 times, playing around with the "dev/sda" and the result still the same.
Right now my Mac doesn't have Operating System on it because I've deleted Mac OS X and doesn't have a backup files/system.
Can anyone help or guide me how am I supposed to do. Thanks in advance 🙁
[UPDATE]
Just want to update my post, currently running Ubuntu 13.10 without no errors! Thanks to this website and Google of course 😉
I am using MacBook Air (2012) so, I have to download the .iso specifically design for mac, here it is http://releases.ubuntu.com/saucy/ and make sure to select "version+mac" iso version.
In the installations section, select "something else" and I did this
- dev/sda1 /boot 500mb
- dev/sda2 / 20000mb
- dev/sda3 swap area 4000mb
- dev/sda4 /home whatever left memory
Everything's work smoothly.
Best Answer
If you plan to install OS X on the computer in the future, do so now. OS X includes tools for managing boot loaders on a Mac that are more-or-less necessary for managing the boot process in EFI mode. Once you've re-installed OS X, you can install rEFInd or use
bless
to register GRUB as a valid boot loader.If you want the computer to be a Linux-only system, I have two suggestions; try whichever sounds best to you:
/dev/sda1
EFI System Partition (ESP) and see if you can boot without the flash drive. If this works, leave it that way.gdisk
(in thegdisk
package) to convert the partition table from GPT to MBR: Typesudo gdisk /dev/sda
, then typer
to enter the recovery & transformation menu, then typeg
to convert to MBR and answer the prompts. When you're done, reboot into an emergency system and re-install GRUB. This process will convert the system to boot in BIOS mode rather than in EFI mode. A Linux-only install on a Mac is likely to be easier to manage in BIOS mode than in EFI mode.