What's with my new MacBookPro 8,2?
I cannot boot linux livecd; Ubutu (8-11!) never sees the CD filesystem after partial boot.
refit 0.14 never sees DVD either; I can place a bootable CD in the drive, but refit doesn't see that there's another bootable device.
Either way, I can't boot livecd or install linux.
I am able to boot Windows from DVD to install...
MacBook Pro (Duo), Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I have the same problem, with multiple Linux distributions, notably with Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty".
I am trying to set up triple boot. The Windows 7 system installed nicvely, but Ubuntu fails to boot.
The boot fails when it tries to load the ramdisk: The "dmesg" log says that the optical drive appears not ready, and after that it also does not show up in the rEFIt boot menu uyntil after I have booted into MacOS X.
Turns out that certain Ubuntu distributions forgot to include some section of drivers. The solution was to copy the distribution to a separate USB drive, boot from the CD with the other drive also inserted, and the install works "properly" by finding and reading all the (same) data from the separate USB device.
Yuk!
MBP8,2: No Linux install...
