Hello, I'm trying to make my mac pro 2006 (1,1) a dual boot
I make a partitiona and I install refit. Then since my superdrive is broken
I try to install it from a USB drive but I get
"Error: Not found returned from legacy loader"
"Error: Not found from LocateDevicePath"...
I have an external DVD as well but refit doesn't seem
able to find it (i think is firewire though)
Any help, suggestions? Pointers?
You might find it a lot easier and more flexible to run Ubuntu (or Fedora and/or any other Linux distros) as a Virtual Machine. I've found VMware Fusion to be quite compatible and well integrated with them, with the additional options to make duplicate copies of the VM's before you start tinkering or taking snapshot which you can seamlessly revert to.
Replace that internal DVD reader for about US$30, rather than struggling.
An awful lot of the stuff you want to load insists on LOCAL devices to boot up from. FireWire is not supported as a Boot device, but USB may be. Can your external DVD reader do USB instead?
I guess I can find and usb-based dvd but I'm afraid that I will have the same problems I had with the USB drive and the refit. VM Fusion always has some problems. Sometimes it's too slow, some other times makes my machine slow. I don't know I was hoping to have an ubuntu permantly there.
Do you think that the external usb dvd will work?
vlex9 wrote:
...VM Fusion always has some problems. Sometimes it's too slow, some other times makes my machine slow...
How much RAM do you have installed on your Mac? I used to run a 1,1 Mac Pro with 16GB of RAM and with earlier versions of Fusion, it only bogged down when I was nesting one VM inside another (e.g., XPMode inside Win7).
I have only 4. Actually, the problem i have with Fusion is that the latest version cannot makes graphics extremely slow. I don't know what's the issue there because previous versions were faster.
My college student son runs his MacBook on Debian. When he has to rebuild from scratch, he comes home to use the external USB DVD Reader we have on hand. (His built-in DVD Reader is a little unreliable.)
So YES, I think an external USB DVD Reader is a solution.
macsales has a drive that fits your older Mac Pro, although they are out-of-stock at the moment probably due to the Los Angeles dock workers' strike:
thanks, I will try that.
Ok, I tried to connect an external DVD drive and that actually worked.
However, now I'm trying to install the actual UBUNTU but the screen goes to sleep
almost immediately. Any ideas? as I said the Mac Pro is a 2006 model with Nvidia 7300GT
Once you begin to Install another Operating System, Mac OS X is not controlling display sleep.
Either you have installed an Ubuntu driver that is goofy, or you have a Hardware flaw.
Anyone solved this problem?
I have the same problem with my MP 1.1. and don't want a Linux in a VM.
I already tried it with USB-Stick with ISO and /etc/boot/xxx.efi file and with unpacked ISO with "dd" and unetbootin. I also tried with DVD ISO and an unpacking to DVD with Toast.
Screw this EFI.
I tried rEFIt and rEFInd...not booting from the live-system at all. ðŸ˜
Mac Pro 1.1 ubuntu Install
