Re: ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on apple intel xserve

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Subject: Re: ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on apple intel xserve
From: Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed Oct 31 16:00:28 2007

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Jason Joines wrote:
I'm a Linux person who just inherited a bunch of apple and dell
boxes. Naturally the first thing I've done is begin replacing windows
on the dells with Ubuntu, no problems there. Now on to the macs.

I was given a macbook pro for a laptop and had no problems getting
Kubuntu on there. However, I can't get the intel xserve to even boot
off of an Ubuntu CD. I tried holding down the C key, the cd is just
ignored. I tried powering on while holding down the system identifier
button, eventually it just spits the cd out. I yanked the hard drives
out and powered on with the cd in the drive, it's been setting there
with a blinking question mark on the screen for more than an hour. I
tried all of those things with both an i386 and an amd64 cd with the
same results. Both cds had been used to install onto the dells.
A "mac person" tried to help me. They went to a boot drive setting
in a system preferences application in os x. I assume it writes changes
to the efi on disk or something like that. However, the cd wasn't
listed which the mac person took to mean it wasn't a boot cd.

When I put Kubuntu on the intel macbook pro, it was 7.04 feisty. I
haven't tried 7.04 on the intel xserver yet and I haven't tried the
powerpc boot disk on any of the powerpc xserve boxes. I thought using
the same thing that worked on the dells on the intel xserve boxes would
be the easiest starting point.

Any ideas?


This may be your answer...

http://community.brighton.ac.uk/ajd9/weblog/16003.html

Sarunas



I'm not sure if that's the issue or not. I started down the efi
path when I first started trying to get Kubuntu on the intel macbook
pro. However, I was able to boot off of the installer CD. I then used
dd to wipe the drive which got rid of the efi partition and let me
install grub to the mbr. Without wiping the efi partition away, I could
not get a bootloader to work. The macbook pro was supposed to be 64
bit but I had to use the i386 cd as the amd64 said the cpu was not 64
bit. Unfortunately on the xserve, I can't boot off either cd.

Right now I'm installing the latest osx so I can install boot camp
so I can install linux so I can dd the drive and see what happens. I'll
probably end up being stuck with a dual boot configuration.


Jason
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