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

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

Jerome BENOIT 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 ?
Yes. My attempts with refit have been using grub-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.
Grrr ...

> 
>>
>> 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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