Re: [Mactel-linux-users] MacBook Pro 8.2

[Scott S. <sco...@gm...>]

I'm planning on getting next macbook pro. (I was tempted to get the current
gen but I can wait a bit.)

I found this thread on the gentoo forums:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-891920-highlight-macbook+pro.html

It may help.
~Scott

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Jerome BENOIT <g62...@re...>wrote:

> Good news: it can be done, even if some part are not yet supported.
>
> On 17/10/11 22:33, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Have you tried refit with grup-pc ?
>
> > b) a grub-efi (pure efi) install fails as grub is inable to rerub-pcad
> the video
> > rom of the Radeon Card and I was unable to get xorg started.
>
> grub-efi is not yet mature enough to with play with.
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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