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MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO 17 HOW TO
MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO 17 INSTALL
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MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO 17 HOW TO

Guides on how to backup your files, or create a ubuntu installer are all over the internet and I feel confident that you will be able to figure that out by yourself. Hopefully, you have enough luggage to start the journey with confidence if you print out this blog post.

Knowing how to use "links", a shell based web browser (and having it available on your system before starting!).

Knowing how to enable WIFI from the shell.

Knowing how to mount the USB stick from the shell.

Means of downloading files, sticking them on a USB stick in case of emergency.

The extlinux and syslinux-common packages from the debian repository.

A MacBookPro6,1!! (things work different in other models).

A USB stick containing the ubuntu installer.

The complete guide to installing ubuntu on a MacBookPro6,1 and getting NVIDIA to play nice.įor this trip, there are a couple of things you need. Since I have been spelunking in my system for a whole night (not the first time) and handcrafting the syslinux.cfg myself I thought i'd share my experiences with the world, and hopefully make another MacBookPro6,1 owner happy. Luckily I still had GRUB around, and could start in recovery mode to make the repairs.Īfter removing the official packages and installing the debian packages my system started up and NVIDIA was working, Yay! deb packages from the debian repositories. The solution? grab the extlinux and syslinux-common. This strategy has worked wonderfully for me for many years, but since Ubuntu 15.10, it got a little harder.Īfter having made the Hybrid MBR and installing and configuring syslinux I got greeted with the message "boot error" so I went on the internet and found that other people were having the same problem, saying that syslinux (v6.03) that comes from the official repositories is broken.

Whatever the case, the only solution that works is to use a hybrid MBR (and syslinux!)

MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO 17 DRIVER

Upon searching the internet, you will find other people with the same problem, some saying that the EFI version this laptop has is non standard, others saying that the NVIDIA driver simply doesn't support EFI. There is no way to get to another TTY, all you can do it start up in recovery mode to remove NVIDIA or fix the problem. What you see is X crashing, crashing hard that is.

MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO 17 INSTALL

If you are like me and want to squeeze every last bit out of your PC, you choose to install the proprietary NVIDIA driver for the GT 330M card, but upon restart you find yourself facing a black screen.

MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO 17 DRIVERS

In this post I am going to share my experiences, and the ultimate guide to installing Linux on your MacBookPro6,1 yourself.Īctually, installing linux on it works just fine, but you end up with the open source video drivers that are a bit clunky and tend to crash your system now and then. I am the proud owner of a Macbook Pro 17' from mid 2010 but installing Linux on an Apple can be a daunting task.Īfter lending my laptop out for a year or so, I just got it back yesterday and had to go through the painful experience of installing Linux on it again. Installing ubuntu on a Macbook Pro 17' mid 2010