- #Install linux on mac os x install#
- #Install linux on mac os x update#
- #Install linux on mac os x pro#
#Install linux on mac os x install#
Once I completed the install I rebooted the MacBook Pro, making sure to eject the disc from the drive first, and it booted into Manjaro with no dramas!! Yay!! My wifi was detected instantly and everything just seemed to work right out of the box. I never got to experiment with the CLI install so that would be interesting to try too. Next time I will run an install using Calamares again and see if I can get it right. But it felt very clean and intuitive using Thus. As a disclaimer I should say that I probably didn’t pay too much attention to how I set up my partitions when using Calamares and this may be why I ran into boot problems. It worked beautifully for me and made creating partitions and selecting where to mount each from a breeze, and it also installed Grub2 without too many hiccups. “Thus” is a native Manjaro installer that at the time of this writing is still in beta. So I decided to run the install again from the disc but this time to try “Thus”. I tried to install/repair Grub using instructions from the Manjaro forums but wasn’t having much success. I first ran the install using Calamares, but when it was done I couldn’t boot into my new install because of the EFI boot section still on the drive from OS X. I had three installers to choose from – “Thus”, Calamares, or CLI. I decided to go ahead and run the install. It booted up into the Live Disc which ran beautifully and had a splash screen offering various options. Ironically, the Manjaro disc shows up as “Windows” so I went ahead and selected that. Holding down the alt/option button allowed me to boot into a screen offering me various boot media. I decided to try out the KDE version, downloaded the ISO, burned it to a disc and then popped it into my MacBook Pro. Manjaro Linuxįinally I came across Manjaro Linux, which is based on Arch Linux. I did not try Ubuntu because I already have a machine running Ubuntu, and I wanted something different. In each case though I ran into various issues with system stability and hardware support, the most troublesome being wireless support and trackpad support. I tried several Linux distros including OpenSuse, Debian, Linux Mint, and Fedora. Being as I like playing around with tech and I had nothing left to lose I decided to try installing a completely different OS on this MacBook to see what would happen. This was the nail on the coffin for me as I no longer have the original CDs that came with this MacBook.
#Install linux on mac os x update#
Alas, the update failed and I was left with endless kernel panic messages and the Mac would no longer boot to a usable state. I decided to go ahead and do this wondering what impact it would have on the system stability. When I booted it up to clean out my files it prompted me to update the OS to Yosemite. Because I have another MacBook that I use for business and some dev work, I was contemplating giving this older MacBook away and replacing it with a smaller laptop, netbook or even Chromebook for regular internet use. I was running OS X Lion on it but it was sluggish and would heat up after running for only a short time.
#Install linux on mac os x pro#
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro that was quickly becoming fairly useless. I will cover my process of experimenting with various distros and why I finally settled on Manjaro, and what hitches I ran into on the way and how I solved them. In this post I am going to briefly outline the process I went through installing a Linux distro to run as the only OS on my MacBook Pro.
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