Macs get sad if OSX is bundled up next to a proper OS. With the exception of setting up the partitions! It's pretty much just clicking 'Next' until it is installed. You'll be taken through the normal Ubuntu installation screen. If you don't do this - your screen will be blank. Do NOT press enter! Press 'e' to edit the boot options. Use the cursor keys to move down to 'Install Ubuntu'. You probably want the one which says something like /USB/EFI/grub64 All being well, rEFInd will give you a choice of devices to boot into. Turn your MacBook off, insert the USB drive, turn the device on. I used another Ubuntu machine to create the Boot Disk on a USB stick. Probably the easiest bit! Download the 64 bit version of Ubuntu. When you reboot, rEFInd should ask you which OS you want to boot to.

Edit the file '/Volumes/esp/EFI/refind/nf'.

Then sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/esp

Open a Terminal and navigate to the directory.There are specific instructions for Yosemite. rEFIndīecause Apple is a super-special-snowflake, it's not possible to directly install Ubuntu onto the new partition. Set the 2nd partition to be 'Free Space'. Up to you how much you want to dedicate to OSX. We're going to split this in to two parts. In OSX, open the Disk Utility, select the main disk. I'll also assume that you may occasionally want to boot into OSX, so we'll be dual booting with Ubuntu 14.04. Let's assume you have a nice, clean, freshly installed OSX 10.10 Yosemite sat on your MacBook Pro. I love the physical aspects of the Mac line, but I really can't be bothered with their Play-doh infested software. I've always run Linux on my Mac Hardware. I read that this system uses a PCIE SSD, though im not sure how to send a kernel module to allow use of it.Being mostly notes to stop me getting frustrated.īased, in part, from this excellent forum post. Typically these both require an unmounted drive to work with.

Note: the installer and Gparted fail to list it. Lsblk from a xubuntu 18.04.1 live installer does not show any pcie or nvme devices. Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table).

I found this information in the system profiler on OS X High Sierra. I have located more information on the SSD. The weekly live including firmware image of Debian also fails to discover the ssd. Df -h results in only the system generated mounts and the installation media.

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