- #Partition linux mac os x mac os x
- #Partition linux mac os x install
- #Partition linux mac os x pro
- #Partition linux mac os x Pc
So the OS using the unchanged partition table will mess things up on your new partition layout. If you change the partitions with one tool, it will change one of the tables but not the other. Reason is that you will have two different partition tables : the GPT one, seen by OSX, and the MBR one seen by linux (though some linux utility like gdisk will be able to see both partition tables). So I think the way to go is to create the partition layout you want from OSX, and then just reformat the partitions to the good filesystem with linux.Īfter that, you should probably never change the partition layout, unless you are looking for troubles. Or you could use Apple's bootcamp for the same result. Still as far as I understand, disk utility will do this automatically if you create FAT32 partitions on the drive.
#Partition linux mac os x install
if you install linux in Legacy/BIOS mode, as far as I understand you need the disk to be formatted in hybrid MBR. that's what I would do if refind was installed). In principle ubiquity will indeed install grub (unless you call it specifically with ubiquity -b, e.g. Then you should be able to boot the USB by pressing alt during boot to access the apple boot manager which will give you an entry called "EFI Boot" with the icon of an external disk.įor the linux bootloader, personally I prefer refind over grub, because it has a nice interface, auto-detection capabilities, and can be easily installed already from OSX. So after burning the ISO to USB, you need to find grubia32.efi on the web and put it on the USB at EFI/bootia32.efi. That's a bit more difficult because the EFI is 32-bit, and Mint 32-bit ISOs do not include an EFI bootloader unfortunately, last time I checked. I'm not really experienced with this, but I think there are good ubuntu wiki pages. That's probably going to be the easier way on this model.īurn a live DVD from the ISO, and boot it pressing C. If you have an USB or DVD of OSX>10.9 that should do.įor the install itself, you have two options :
I'm not sure Disk utility on Lion has the possibility to resize partitions, I think this option came with later OSX versions. Linux tools dont play well with hfs+ partitions as far as I know. It's preferable to use OSX's disk utility to resize the OSX partition and leave room for the linux install. If so, there is the quirk that the EFI is 32-bit (though the CPU is 64 bit) I used to dual-boot OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and LM 16, and it also worked.
#Partition linux mac os x pro
I'm writing this from a MacBook Pro dual-booting OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) and LM 17.3.
You can perfectly install linux alongside OSX.
#Partition linux mac os x Pc
If it were any other PC it'd be done already, but I'd hate to corrupt my current install because of something Apple did to complicate things. (Ideally I would pull the hard drive, pop it into a similar PC and run the install then put it back in the MacBook). After trying for hours to get OS X installed on a blank hard drive, I had to go to the Apple store for them to do it. I only ask because Apple does weird things to make seemingly simple processes like installing OS's nearly impossible for the every-user. I don't want to corrupt my Lion install but I have a huge hard drive and my little core2duo isn't powerful enough to virtualize anything substantial.Īnd if I were to go ahead with this, would the Linux GRUB take over like it usually does? (This is my desired outcome). How much truth is there to this? If I were to run the Mint iso, would I still have the option to install alongside Mac OS X? Would it just partition the drive like it normally does? As much as I'd rather run something newer than Lion, there are issues using Linux as my sole OS on this machine (primarily when going into standby/closing the laptop/battery life).
#Partition linux mac os x mac os x
I've read that Linux can't be installed alongside Mac OS X due to conflicting filesystems or something. So I've probably installed Mint alongside Windows countless times, but recently I just got my hands on a 2006/2007 MacBook running OS X Lion.