Fedora 21 already has advanced support for Macbooks (WITHOUT refind), creating a bootable HFS+ partition instead of a FAT32 partition. It also avoids messing with the default OS X boot partition, which OS X uses for updates (it sometimes wipes the whole thing). I'm running Fedora 21 like this now, no third party software, it was all defaults.
School start soon and at my school we use only windows, and i want to start learning linux and because of that i want to do only a dual boot not a triboot. 1.How i can accomplish that? Because when i delete de OSX partition i can't boot on windows anymore. 2.If i install linux 1st and then windows?
3.I can't use the sound on Windows 10 Pro, i tried all the possibilities that are on the internet, so if you have something maybe that can help, 4.What cause that problem that i cant boot on windows after i delete the OSX partition? Have a nice day!!!!
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A reader who is rather quite technically inclined writes to me saying: I’m experimenting with installing on my Macintosh, and it’s working great except now the default operating system upon boot is Linux, not Mac OS X. How do I fix that?? As it turns out, I too am experimenting with Ubuntu and Yellow Dog Linux on my PowerBook (and have had to reinstall Mac OS X three times, so far, but that’s another story) so I know just what you’re talking about. For Ubuntu, which is based on Debian Linux, the bootstrap loader – the program that decides which OS you want to boot – the program that controls that first few seconds of your computer startup is called yaboot and it’s actually a project that lives at. To modify yaboot so that the default operating system is actually Mac OS X isn’t too hard. There’s a great yaboot reference document online at. It turns out that the change is trivially simple: in the file /etc/yaboot.conf on the Linux side of things, you simply needed to add the line defaultos=macosx.
The second – and critical – step is to actually install the new bootstrap loader configuration file, and that’s done with ybin -v which figures out where the new configuration file should be moved and does it. And keep your eyes open as you go along: the most amusing line in the entire process is the output statement “Blessing /dev/hda6 with Holy Penguin Pee”. Only in the world of Linux! Hello, I read all the tips and comments on how to run Ubuntu and Mac Os X together on one Macintosh. I have to deal with this problem daily because I am an system administrator for Apple. If you have already successfully installed Ubuntu and you try to boot DO NOT use any programs or do any “complicated programming” to choose between Ubuntu or Mac Os X. Just press the “option” “Alt” key after you hear the startup sound.
Keep it pressed and the Mac Os X and Ubuntu logos will appear. Choose with the arrow keys from which OS you want to start and press return. Nothing else. Really simple. Hope this helps. Hello, I’ve a problem.
I had been trying so hard to install Ubuntu 5.10 on my Powerbook G4, with no luck. Finally I came up with a solution.
When I partitioned my HD, I decided to first install Ubuntu insted of Mac OS X. Finally I could install Ubuntu, it went all perfect. So I only had Ubuntu running on my mac. You’d shut it down and Ubuntu would start. It was almost perfect, so the second thing I did was to reinstall Mac OS X.
My problem is the following: When I turn back on my mac, Mac OS X starts. I don’t know how to run Ubuntu again, i know it’s there, but I just can’t run it. How can I access Ubuntu and still be able to access Mac OS X?
Can I have my mac ask me what OS I want to work on? Any help would be apreciated. Hi, Thanks for the articles on dual-booting PPCs. I’m new to the Mac community (but loving it) and am trying to get Fedora Core 4 working on my G4 PowerBook. When you describe editing /etc/yaboot.conf to add “defaultos=macosx.” it sounds easy. My question belies my ignorance: how do you edit /etc/yaboot.conf?
Do you have to use a special program? Do you do it from within the Linux OS or the Mac OS? Last question: when you mention the critical step of installing the new bootstrap loader configuration file with “ybin -v” – is that a program? Where do you get it (or is it already installed in either FC4 for Tiger) / where do you run it? Thanks a bunch, sorry to ask what probably seem like basic/obvious questions!