mekineer - 2014-01-03

I installed Crunchbang Linux, which did not give me the "CD hangs prompting me to enter 1 or 2..." problem I had before with Arch and Manjaro. Crunchbang was on DVD, so maybe I just need to use DVD's?** I installed Crunchbang 64-bit without installing Grub. Neither rEFIt or rEFInd can find Crunchbang, probably because it is 64 bit. After installing Grub, rEFInd lists a linux entry. Selecting the linux entry loads Grub. rEFInd also lists a Windows entry, but this entry also loads Grub. So the end effect is that I should use either rEFIt/rEFInd or Grub, but not both.

I should probably use Grub for this Mac, since it has a 32 bit EFI, and I wish to use 64 bit operating systems, that Grub can load, but not rEFIt/rEFInd.

Even though I am using CSM-BIOS, in Crunchbang, the controls for volume, brightness, and num lock work (unfortunately, I don't have to use the "fn" key to make them work, so I wonder how I am going to use the corresponding function keys) (EDIT: for solutions, search "fnmode")

** EDIT: Manjaro burned to DVD had the same ill result. The reason is: " Most of the 32-bit EFI Macs and some 64-bit EFI Macs refuse to boot from a UEFI(X64)+BIOS bootable CD/DVD. If one wishes to proceed with the installation using optical media, it might be necessary to remove UEFI support first. " from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Remove_UEFI_boot_support_from_Optical_Media

 

Last edit: mekineer 2014-01-06