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

[mike d. <fl...@po...>]

Johannes Graumann said:
> > Johannes, I'm getting a MacBookPro8,2 in less than a week, and
> > running Debian on it will be top priority, so I'd be interested to
> > know about your progress.
> 
> None. Managed to rescue from all my prior experiments and have a refit
> install back up and running - which is actually not very difficult to
> achieve. However I have a major showstopper and that is that it seems
> impossible to have optical drive access when running with refit/bios
> emulation.
> 
> I'm likely selling the thing back to IT and go for a Sager notebook.

Oh, that's sad to read. Apparently, everything works including the
optical drive when booting in EFI mode with some patches. See the last
posts from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1695746&page=74

Cheers,

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mike dentifrice <fl...@po...>