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Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

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On 22 January 2017 at 15:41, solitone <solitone@mail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:08:59 PM CET Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > you need to play with the bios on your Mac box to get it to boot from the
> > debian DVD.
>
> The point is that, in contrast to all other PCs I had, on Macs you cannot
> enter the BIOS setup and configure the boot order. You have to press the
> "Option ⌥" key while powering on the Mac. That will allow you to enter the
> Startup Manager, where you'll see a list of all bootable devices available,
> and choose the one you need (e.g. a bootable DVD-ROM).
>

​I think the discussion here seems illuminating:​


​https://linuxnewbieguide.org/how-to-install-linux-on-a-macintosh-computer/​


​You want to use a installation with efi support so apparently the Debian
Live option is not recommended because it doesn't support efi booting.

The standard installation iso files do.  If the efi installer fires up it
will apparently identify itself as such when it does so.

If you boot the Mac and choose option C in the start up mode that is
supposed to try to boot up DVD iso files etc but the article suggests this
could fail if the efi driver isn't loaded - the rEFInd utility solves this
problem it seems.

Apparently you need to convert the iso file into an image format.

It's probably easier to install Debian on an IBM 390.

Cheers MF




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Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 Rafael Lauda <rafaellauda@gmail.com> - 2017-01-21 21:10 +0100
  Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-01-21 23:30 +0100
  Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> - 2017-01-22 00:40 +0100
    Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-01-22 02:40 +0100
  Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-01-22 07:10 +0100
    Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-01-22 07:20 +0100
  Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 15:30 +0100
    Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-01-22 16:50 +0100
      Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 17:50 +0100
        Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-01-23 06:50 +0100
          Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-01-24 21:00 +0100
    Re: dual boot (multi-boot) (was: Help Installing a Dual...) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-01-23 00:10 +0100
  Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1 Cathy Gramze <rhiamom@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 17:30 +0100

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