Installing Ubuntu on a Leopard Mac

[juggernaut911]

Hello, my brother decided to add Ubuntu to his Mac Book. It currently has Leopard on it. He wants to add Ubuntu to it without screwing up his Mac. Would I just install Ubuntu 7.10 normally and grub will work natively with leopard or will I have to screw with the boot list?


Thanks

 

[juggernaut911]

anyone know?

 

[Azimuth]

You will have to edit the grub boot menu. Its located in /boot/grub/menu.lst
Add the following to it:

title Leopard
kernel (hd0,x)/boot/boot_v8

x is the partition leopard is installed on, most likely the first partition so x's value would be zero.

edit: thats using the pc_efi bootloader, you can also just add:

title Mac OS X: Leopard
root (hd0,x)
makeactive
savedefault
chainloader +1

to your /boot/grub/menu.lst and it should work fine

http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-dual-boot...1051/2008/02/28
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookPro/SantaRosa

 

[juggernaut911]

thnx


PS: ur name is familiar, do you hang around in the Ubuntu irc?

 

[Azimuth]

thnx


PS: ur name is familiar, do you hang around in the Ubuntu irc?

No, but I hang around freenode a lot so you might have seen me there.