[Mactel-linux-users] MacBook Pro 8.2

[Johannes G. <joh...@we...>]

Hi,

I'm after the combination of the nice macbbok hardware with my favorite OS 
(usually in its debian testing incarnation), so I purchased a recent macbook 
pro, which turns out to be version 8.2.

I am having a multi-week nightmare with this thing.
a) refit-based install lead (eventually) to a booting system with video, yet 
cdrom remained inaccessible.
b) a grub-efi (pure efi) install fails as grub is inable to read the video 
rom of the Radeon Card and I was unable to get xorg started.

I'm very close to just run debian from within vmware running on OSX, yet 
that really is my last resort.

Did anyone get this to work and can give some pointers?

Thanks, Joh