Problems Dual booting OS X 10.6.8 and Ubuntu 10.10

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Problems Dual booting OS X 10.6.8 and Ubuntu 10.10

Is it possible to dual boot 10.6.8 and Ubuntu 10.10 on Mac Mini? I have already prepared a 40GB partition on the drive for Linux, and have installed reFit.

2 issues I noticed:

1) After shutting down and starting up the computer again with the Ubuntu CD, I don't get the option to boot from the Cd on the reFit screen.

2) The one time that I held down "alt" to bring up boot menu, I selected the CD but it was called "windows"? When I booted from the CD in this case, I got to see the purple screen briefly, then it went blank and into power save mode. The computer continued to load the live cd, but again I couldn't see anything.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this? I really would like to dual boot my mini with OS X and Linux.

Thanks!

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 12, 2011 1:51 PM

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Answer 1

Fortuny

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Aug 13, 2011 10:11 PM in response to rayray519

The Ubuntu community is maintaining a very interesting webpage on Ubuntu on Macs https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages

Stefan

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Aug 14, 2011 1:09 PM in response to rayray519

Yes, it is indeed possible to dual boot using Boot Camp into Ubuntu.

However, if you are experiencing problems, you could try using a virtualization program such as VirtualBox (free) or VMWare Fusion (paid) or Parallels Desktop (paid) to run Ubuntu side by side with Mac OS X at the same time.

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esok

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Sep 19, 2011 5:54 PM in response to rayray519

If you have the ability to add kernel parameters when you start up the Linux installer, try using "nomodeset" (should fix display problem) and/or "reboot=pci" (should fix problem rebooting once in Linux).

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