2009 macbook pro latest os10/12/2023 ![]() I will do some more research, I'd just try it right away if I had an extra laptop for my regular work. I didn't encounter any problems when running the live-USB (I had to install the Broadcom drivers though for wirless to work) I checked system report and this is what is says about GPU: My hardware is almost the same as yours, except I have the non-problematic intel gpu. When I installed Mint 20.2 I wiped macOS and made it a linux-only machine. I'm typing this on a 2009 macbook (not pro), core2 duo, that I originally dual-booted with Snow Leopard and Mint 19. When I replaced mine, I used Foxclone to clone my macOS drive to the ssd using a usb/sata adapter, then swapped drives. If you hard drive is a spinner, you can significantly reduce your boot time by replacing it with a ssd. It's a good idea to backup your system to an external drive before you begin. APFS is a different story-grub cannot see APFS. Grub should pick up the HFS file system just fine. You should not need rEFInd with your system. This can be done, and the camera will work. The isight webcam won't work until you install the Apple firmware for it. It's in the repos, but ubuntu won't allow proprietary software to install automagically and without specific user intervention. You will have to use your hard-wired ethernet connection with the Driver Manager to download and install the proprietary Broadcom Apple Airport Extreme driver. Your wifi will work in the 'Live USB' mode, but not after install. After that, each boot will be with the nomodeset parameter and you should have a functioning desktop. Once booted, you will need to edit /etc/default/grub and add nomodeset to the line with "quiet boot", like this "quiet boot nomodeset"ĭon't forget to save and run sudo update-grub to set your changes. ![]() Then you can continue to boot, and hopefully get to a functioning desktop. There, you will need to edit grub to boot in nomodeset by adding that to the grub line that begins with 'linux'. Luckily, El Cap's default file system is HFS, which grub can recognize and will show itself at boot-up. You will be forced to run in 'software rendering' mode. Mint will recognize the Radeon, but the kernel drivers that get installed will not work. You will probably black screen at first boot after install, because there are no linux drivers for it, and no way to install any. Where you will run into trouble is the Radeon gpu (1600 mobility I think). but before doing this I want to get some more insights:) Many thanks for any advice if you've been down this road.ĭon't bother with swap, you don't need it because hibernation on apples is 'iffy'. Let's say you'd want to get rid of Linux (or reinstall it.) would it be enough to just delete the 2 Linux partitions (swap and main system) using disk utility in mac os again? Or would the bootloader be affected somehow? ![]() I was also wondering if - once a dualboot system has been installed - it will be necessary to choose the bootable system each time you start the computer, or does it just boot into the last used system till you change the startup disk somehow? And wether or not I need to install this rEFInd first is not clear to me. Just want to make sure I can still boot into Mac OS during this whole process, and if something goes wrong. The ext4 linux partition and it will creat the bootloader for Mint in there? Or will it alter the main Mac OS bootloader? I don't want to mess up the Mac bootloader, so that's my worry.Ģ) When this is done, boot off an USB stick that has been created by Etcher (I've run the live version off USB), install to "something else".ģ)if I have created 2 partitions beforehand using disk utility (formatted to ext4 for the linux system andswap) do I just choose to install on reFInd? (and in that case disable and enable SIP to install reFInd. *is it necessary to install a third-party bootloader, i.e. *questions here: - do I really need to create 2 partitions, or is it enough to create just 1 for the Linux install and leave out the creation of a swap partition add 2 partitions: 1 main partiton formatted as MS-Dos Fat (that will later be formatted as ext4 in the installation process of Mint), 1 equal to 8 GB (as it's my Ram) for swap. These are the steps that I wanted to follow but as mentioned I'm left with some doubts and maybe somebody who has successfully done this can enlighten me:ġ) First I wanted to start out with Disk Utility. It runs 10.11 (El Capitan) and has 8 Gb of Ram. The machine is a Macbook Pro 2009 2'53 Intel Core 2 Duo. It's my main machine so I don't want to mess up the current Mac OS. I'm left with some questions before proceeding. I've done quite some research now about the possibilty to dualboot OS Capitan and Linux Mint.
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