#Run linux on a mac install#
#Run linux on a mac manual#

If you have a dual monitor setup, they you will notice that sometimes one of the monitors display less colours than the other one. I read somewhere that this issue happens in EFI based machines with Intel HD xxxx video cards, but I am not exactly sure the reason behind it. Once the partitions are confirmed and the bootloader installation device is set, proceed with the installation. Never use any of the block devices used by the Mac OSX, in mine they were the device itself /dev/sda and /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 In the 'Device for bootloader installation' dropdown please select the root partition or /boot/ partition you created in the partition table.

#Run linux on a mac manual#

You need to choose 'Something else' from the harddisk setup/partition section, then in the partition editorĬhose the 2nd partition you left blank in the mac disk partitioning utility (check the note above), use the blank partition to setup your favourite partition table.Ī video clip explaining manual disk partitioning in Mint. The installation should be straightforward until you get to the point where you choose the paritions setup. Reboot, if rEFInd is installed correcty you will see the menu at the time of booting.

#Run linux on a mac install#

It will show some messages and install the complete installation. Macmini comes with an UEFI bootloader, the easiest way to get multiple OSs to run with the machine is through rEFInd, you can download it from the link below.Īs far as I can see rEFInd is a software layer for UEFI based computers so that you can esily run multiple OSes with a nice menu driven interface so that users can switch between them easily.ĭownload the 'Binary zip file' from the link below.Īfter downloading, extract the zip, 'cd' into the folder and run 'sudo. I dont think this is a must but just saying what my configuration was. I left the second partition untouched, meaning unformatted. NOTE: I reinstalled macosx before installing Linux and recreated the partitions table with two (using apple disk utility), since I had a 1TB drive, I split it into two equal partitions and reinstalled mac on the first (512GB was used). A monitor or two so you can see whats going on :).A Mac mini late 2012 with OSX in a perfect state (if not you can reinstall OSX to start with, I did that).I assume that you have a reasonable knowledge in *nix based OSes and commands.Installing Ubuntu/Linux Mint on Macmini is easy, but getting it to work the way you normally want a PC to run is a bit difficult (meaning, run smoothly and making all peripherals work) :) I am trying to cover all the issues I had with linux installation process and getting Apple hardware t o run happily with Linux.