Booting Ubuntu from Intel Mac OSX Laptop
I acquired a recent MAC OS-X Laptop from work. I am in charge of completely wiping data from PCs before they are either recycled or disposed of. Anyway, I ran a disk wipe utility on the HDD to completely remove all possible confidential information. However it seemed a shame to throw the machine away if it could be re-used. The keyboard is sticky, battery is dead but it still works off the power cord.
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 and it will boot off the live CD and can boot into the installed system provided I start off with the CD in the drive (well, usually!).
However, it does not boot into Ubuntu on its own. I believe this is something to do with the EFI bootloader but I thought this should be supported in Linux, since I can get my O2 joggler to boot off an SD card into Ubuntu.
My question is:
How do I get an old MAC OS-X system to boot correctly from scratch into Ubuntu. I do NOT have the original MAC-OS installed or have access to the install DVD. I do NOT intend to purchase proprietary software for this machine. I am happy to consider other Linux variants and don't mind restarting from scratch.
Thanks in advance.
Chris
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