Problem installing Ubuntu on my Mac

on mac I installed ubuntu it didn't work i tried to recover with internet recovery but it doesn't show me any disk to install i formatted all the disks and still nothing to do


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Posted on Apr 23, 2021 11:11 PM

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Posted on Apr 24, 2021 8:26 PM

One of the following should work for you:


Boot back into Internet Recovery, specifically using Shift-Option-Command-R (if you are on an Intel-based Mac) and in Disk Utility select the View menu and choose Show All Devices. Erasing "Macintosh HD" is not sufficient, you need to see the whole physical drive and erase that as that will also rebuilt the various hidden partitions necessary for the installer to see a drive.


On the 1% chance this still doesn't work you should erase/repartition the drive as an old-style Windows-style Master Boot Record drive + using FAT32, then immediately turn around bring it back to a GUID partition + using MacOS Extended Journaled (or APFS). Doing so will completely flush out the boot sector and eliminate all boot-record traces of Ubuntu and get the drive recognized by the Reinstall option.

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Apr 24, 2021 8:26 PM in response to miha132

One of the following should work for you:


Boot back into Internet Recovery, specifically using Shift-Option-Command-R (if you are on an Intel-based Mac) and in Disk Utility select the View menu and choose Show All Devices. Erasing "Macintosh HD" is not sufficient, you need to see the whole physical drive and erase that as that will also rebuilt the various hidden partitions necessary for the installer to see a drive.


On the 1% chance this still doesn't work you should erase/repartition the drive as an old-style Windows-style Master Boot Record drive + using FAT32, then immediately turn around bring it back to a GUID partition + using MacOS Extended Journaled (or APFS). Doing so will completely flush out the boot sector and eliminate all boot-record traces of Ubuntu and get the drive recognized by the Reinstall option.

Apr 24, 2021 4:24 AM in response to miha132

Can you boot from the USB Installer of Ubuntu and if so, use the GPart Utility in Ubuntu to Reformat the Entire Internal Drive to FAT. Once that is done, may need another Bootable Installer from Apple with the qualifying version of macOs. Then boot from the macOS Bootable Installer and again reformat the Entire Internal Drive to match the filing System of the macOS Bootable USB - that being APFS / GUID of Catalina and above or HS / GUID if Sierra. High Sierra and Mojave, will depend if Internal is SSD or Rotational drive. If SSD - then APFS if Rotational HFS

Apr 24, 2021 8:09 PM in response to Owl-53

You may not actually need a macOS installer drive -- try holding Command + R + Power while booting. Wait until below the Apple logo it says "Loading boot options..." -- from there, use your keyboard's cursor keys to navigate. Highlight "Options" and press Enter. You will be presented with a variety of tools, one of which is "Install macOS (mOS version)". First however, you'll need to open up the Disk Utility and erase your disk.

Apr 24, 2021 8:00 PM in response to Owl-53

You may not actually need a macOS installer drive -- try holding Command + R + Power while booting. Wait until below the Apple logo it says "Loading boot options..." -- from there, use your keyboard's cursor keys to navigate. Highlight "Options" and press Enter. You will be presented with a variety of tools, one of which is "Install macOS (mOS version)". First however, you'll need to open up the Disk Utility and erase your disk.

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