Fedora :: Macbook No Longer Booting?
Aug 20, 2009
I screwed something up and my macbook no longer boots up - hanging before gdm with msg: NETADDRCONF eth0 not found NETADDRCONF wlan0 not found(not connected to network)problem happened after I tried to fix the flaky mouse with following:
* I created a conf file and added a inputdevice section with touchpad options
* I also created an appletouch.fdi file with op0tions
* I also created an applesmc module
if I can figure out how to boot into failsafe then I could back out changes but at this point I cannot even get there
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Jul 22, 2011
I am having trouble getting FEdora 15 running on my MacBook Pro. I had Fedora 15 installed before on this MBP before, so I know it works. I basically followed the good old instructions of
1. Create a Windows partition in bootcamp (rEFIt was already installed from trying to get ubuntu running)
2. Boot from disk and install in Windows partition with bootloader on installed on the / partition
3. Install, reboot, and resync the MBR using rEFIt partitioning tool
4. Shut down the computer and start up on the parition you installed linux on
Now I get a grub error code...
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Jun 17, 2010
I'm trying to install Lucid on a Macbook 4,1. I've got both a DVD and a USB (created using Ubuntu instructions and USB Startup Disk Creator) with ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso on them. (Is this the wrong version to use, maybe?)
There are three different ways I've come across to boot from a USB or DVD, and none of them work:
1) System Preferences > Startup Disk: when I do this, only the Mac's harddrive and 'Network Startup' are available as options for booting. Even when the USB and/or DVD are inserted and are showing up on the desktop, they aren't available as options in Startup Disk.
2) Hold down 'C' when the computer is booting up to boot from a disk: this doesn't seem to do anything.
3) Hold down 'alt/option' when the computer is booting up to get a list of boot options: a list appears, but the computer's hard drive is the only option. Neither the DVD nor the USB show up.
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Nov 18, 2010
I would like to triple boot my Macbook Pro. I don't want to use rEFIt. Although it worked on my iMac, it would randomly not load the OS's sometimes.
1. Is there a way to use Boot Camp?
2. I know how to use Mac with the windows xp bootloader. How can i put Ubuntu in too? I got this thing about taking 512 megabytes of the bootloader grub or something like that but I don't get it.
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Aug 4, 2011
I am having problems with triple booting my system. The original Linux OS I started out with was Ubuntu, which I was able to triple boot in the desired configuration (Mac OSX, Unbuntu, and Windows XP) after several tries (the instructions I got weren't quite right). I am now trying to install openSUSE instead of Ubuntu. However, if I install openSUSE before Windows XP, Windows XP erases my installation. If I install it afterwards, it seems to erase Windows XP, as it becomes unbootable thereafter. Perhaps this is because I am following the instructions for installing Ubuntu (format partition 3 as Ext3, mount it as /, and install the grub boot loader inside that partition), without modifying much else. I can't seem to find any good instructions online to tell me what else to do.
the instructions on installing Ubuntu screwed up because it said I had to install Windows XP first, before installing Ubuntu. I found out it was the other way around. Also, while Ubuntu was installed, all three partitions showed up on disk utility (although the Linux partition wasn't a recognized file system). However, every time I've installed openSUSE, where the partition should have been showed up as empty space on disk utility.
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Feb 1, 2010
Few days back i was searching for triple booting my mac through this ubuntu forum.and i ran into command name bless
it was like : bless /dev/disk0s3 --setboot -- device --verbose
i ran it on the terminal after booting it from a Leopard installation DVD in a hope to run linux on my macbook(macbook white..intel m/c 160gb HD..2 GB RAM) after trying all the stuff and eventually everything has stopped booting neither leopard nor windows. i can see the grub for ubuntu loading up but after selecting the option for ubuntu, ubuntu is also not working.
i was using refit as well.i cannot even boot from my leopard installation dvd..windows that was priorly installed using bootcamp is corrupted too.
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Feb 3, 2010
I am trying to install kubuntu on my macbook. I am able to boot from the CD and install fine, but when I try to boot from the linux partition the cursor blinks for a while, then the screen goes blank.I have used the rEFIt partition utility, but when I try to reinstall the grub bootloader as described here: it says "sudo: grub: command not found"When it try "grub", it says:"The program 'grub' is not currently installed. You can install it by typing:sudo apt-get install grub"
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Jan 4, 2010
I updated yesterday. I'm not sure if problems started before or after.
The problem yesterday [URL]
Went to bed last night and left the computer running, something weird occured this morning (media file wouldn't play) so I just decided to restart.
now I am getting this,
Mount of root filesystem failed. A maintenance shell will now be started. CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system.
ctrl-d just brings me back to the above error message.
in the GNU GRUB version window I no longer have
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-15-generic
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-15-generic (recovery mode)
listed
using the other two listed 16 and 14 does nothing
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Oct 18, 2010
did some updates on the buntu-box but everytime I start it it now goes to some CMD-like screen that lets you go through F1-FX and comes up with diffrent tty thingies, before the update it used to go into the proper GUI, I have 10.10 installed, I think I updated my GPU driver and looked on here for some hints on what to do, I have tried: cd /etc/x11
Above command did not work for some reason, think it couldn#t find it? Sudo service gdm start Said above process is already started or something
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Mar 17, 2010
i have a peguin computing 130 server running ubuntu server 9.10 and today i open the box to removed one of the hard drives that wasn't being used and the server is no longer booting to the bios.
i have removed the ram and placed it back but notting is showing up. Every time i turn it on it doesn't show anything not even the bios.
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Mar 22, 2010
so after my upgrade to 10.04 I'm experiencing a puzzling problem with Grub2. It can load everything fine except for XP. I have XP on a separate partition, it is detecting fine and the grub.cfg file is created withou a problem when I the appropriate commands to update and upgrade grub. What happens is that I select Windows XP from the list and it goes to a black screen where a cursor in the top left corner blinks 3-5 times and then immediately kicks me back to the Grub menu. I can do this forever but the grub menu just gets reloaded every time. Any ideas?
Here is the windows portion of my Grub.cfg:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on /dev/sda2)" {
insmod ntfs
[code]...
Here is my boot.ini on the ntfs partion I am trying to boot into
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOW S
[code]...
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Aug 7, 2010
I was dual booting on my netbook with Lucid and Windows XP, so the computer starts with the GRUB2 menu. I deleted the windows partition and now I only use Lucid on the netbook. I want to know how can I get the computer to simply boot into Ubuntu like a normal computer would do if it was not set up as a dual boot system?
How can I get the computer to go directly into the ONLY operating system rather than taking a detour through the GRUB menu?
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Oct 13, 2010
I made a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.10 (64 bit) on a Sony PCG-81112M, the graphic cards is identified by lspci as "nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce FT 330M]". Quite frequently everything but the mouse pointer freezed on the screen, I found no way to recover from these situations but to restart the computer using the power button.
I decided to install the proprietary driver (as this is the recommended driver, I was confident this would solve the problem). As a consequence the system now hangs on boot after showing the Ubuntu 10.10 inial logo/text. I could start in recovery mode, but I'm not sure to which driver I should try to change to. I really need no fancy 3d stuff, just a robust computer to which I can attach and detach an external screen.
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Jun 2, 2011
Upgraded to 2.6.32-32-generic, it takes about 20 seconds after login at boot up; previous version only takes about 13 seconds. They are at the same environment and service status.(ubuntu 10.04)
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Apr 16, 2010
I decided to install the Ubuntu Netbook remix (9.10, I believe) on this extra IDE hard drive I had (my other three hard drives are SATA.) My primary hard drive contains a Windows XP, my second contains Windows 7, and my third SATA drive is just NTFS-formatted storage. I went through the installer and choose to format and install on my 40GB IDE hard drive, which it did. Then it finished and rebooted. It apparently decided to install the GRUB bootloader onto the primary hard drive (not the one it was installed on,) which was not my intention. The bootloader froze the boot of my computer and wouldn't work. (Stuck at loading GRUB.) I couldn't even get to the BIOS. So I pulled the plug on the primary hard drive and tried to boot again. I could get into Windows 7 just fine, but that was it. The problem, though, is that the CD drive (also SATA) no longer shows up in My Computer. Also, after changing the boot order and replugging in the former primary hard drive, it wouldn't show up, either. Nor would the IDE one (though I'm pretty sure that's because Windows doesn't understand the EXT (or whatever Ubuntu uses) file system.
Does anyone know why this occurred and how to get those drives to show up in Windows again? I don't really care to get the netbook remix working here, since this isn't even a laptop, it was just an experiment. Also, I'd love to know how to remove GRUB from my primary hard disk so that I can boot from it again.
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May 28, 2010
I'm having some trouble using sudo - it did work fine, but now when I try to use it, I have the following error:
I understand that I have to modify /etc/sudoers but need to have root access to do this. I am using a bootable USB (lucid) with persistent changes and am unable to login as root, because I don't know the default root password, and am unable to use sudo to change it.
The problem occurred after I had some corruption to the casper file system, so I booted into Windows, moved the casper-rw file to another location on my flashdrive, and used a 1GB backup filesystem to repair the corrupt one using fsck.
After booting up from the restored filesystem, sudo would no longer work.
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Feb 2, 2011
After installing recommended updates for Ubuntu, Ubuntu would no longer boot from Windows Boot Loader. It looks like an error about some missing NTFS4 files briefly flashes on the screen.
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Jun 1, 2011
I am in a situation to boot fedora 15 live cd in to command line mode, not graphical mode, for some testing purpose. how to change argument during booting mode
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Jun 14, 2009
installing Fedora 11 on a MacBook.
It is mostly aimed at the 3,1/4,1 white series but a lot of the details are relevant to the newer 5,1 and aluminum macbooks too. Pretty much everything works just nicely with the tweaks described.
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Jan 31, 2010
I downloaded the current F12 DVD iso on my macbook to install on my Dell 450 Intel Xeon 3.00GHz, but I cant figure out how to verify the download. The Fedoraproject/en/verify does not mention mac, and the command is not working in the mac terminal.
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Jul 10, 2011
I have a MacBookPro5,1 system. I used a boot menu program name rEFIt to triple boot between Mac OS X 10.6, Fedora (64-bit), and Windows.
I want to upgrade my Fedora installation to version 15, however first I need to upgrade to version 14. I downloaded and burnt the DVD images for both version 14 and 15. I cannot get either version to run on the MacBook Pro.
When I try the version 14 installation, I get the menu asking me if I want to upgrade/install a new system, boot to local disc, run a rescue, etc. After select the upgrade some text will appear on the screen about loading and configuring and then the screen goes black and the system just sits there doing nothing.
When I try the version 15 installation, I get the same menu as before. I select upgrade. Again the loading and configuration text appears on the screen, and then the system just sits there with a message about waiting for the hardware to initialize.
I tested the version 14 DVD on another system, and it will get past this stage of the installation to where it will prompt to test the installation media, so I assume the DVD is fine and would actually install properly on a system. I suspect the version 15 DVD is fine to, as I have never had any problem with any installation DVD's I've even burnt.
I suspect the problem has to do with the interaction between the setup program and the Macintosh.
What can I do so that I can upgrade my Linux installation on this system?
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Jun 15, 2010
I tried to install Fedora 13 on my MacBook Pro 13" but I get the following error:
The exact procedure is as follows:
- Boot from CD
- Start Live CD menu
- During loading live CD I get this error:
"ata 2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)"
"ata 1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)"
- The loading continues..
- At the end I get:
"No root device found"
"Boot has failed, sleeping forever"
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Nov 30, 2010
What i think is that maybe it is possible, but however some of the hardware features may not be supported by Fedora unless the Kernel can be patched such as back-light, iSight etc etc.
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Aug 21, 2011
I can't seem to get the sound working on my MacbookPro with Fedora 15. I tried the old options hda-intel-sound model-mbp55
Code:
[brad@bmp modprobe.d]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
[code]....
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Aug 27, 2011
Last night I downloaded the iso for the full DVD install with the intention of installing it from the hard drive. Since my old Fedora Core 2 system is down right now I have the iso on my MacBook.How do I perform the 256 check sum on the MacBook? I tried the shasum -a 256 but I'm not sure it's doing the right thing.
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Nov 22, 2010
I'm probably in way over my head, but have recently been given a job that will be utilizing the systems in the Subject. My employer will be sending me to school for the basics (Red Hat System Administration). I currently have a Macbook Pro that I would like to be able to virtualize a server and install RHEL 5 to begin to read through manuals and anything else I can get my hands on. Wondering if the community has any advice for operating/installing RHEL 5 on a Macbook (virtualized preferably), as well as any other useful advice or comments in regards to 'speed learning' these systems.
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Feb 10, 2011
I've decided to install Fedora 14 on my Late 2008 Macbook Pro (model 5,1), but when attempting to boot from the live cd, all I get is the main boot menu, then I briefly get a grey screen with a blinking white cursor, then the screen just goes black. The computer is still running, and I can still hear the cd drive, but I have no video. I've seen the tutorials for installing Fedora 14 on a 5,1 macbook pro, and I know it's been done successfully with no mention of such issues.
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Nov 27, 2010
Fedora 13 installed on MacBook Pro laptop. I have no sound emitted from speakers.
[code]...
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Jan 24, 2011
I have the Fedora 14 64bit Live CD on a 4GB USB Flash drive, via Live-USB-Creator. I have bootcamp installed on my Macbook Pro (5,5) with OSX, Windows 7, and Ubuntu already installed. I plan to install Fedora over the Ubuntu.
1.)So, when refit boots up, I choose the EFI USB (Fedora) and the Fedora screen comes up.
2.) I click any key to dismiss the auto boot
3.) I click "e" to edit the Fedora kernel, then I edit the first option and add the line "nomodeset"
4.) I press enter, and then "b" to boot that line. The screen kind of goes whack and a fair amount of super small (unreadable) text comes up on the screen and then just hangs with the blinking (_)
If I go into Grub via "c", and type in "nomodeset" it gives me an Error 27 Unrecognized command. And I've read online to press TAB to go into grub, but TAB does nothing for me.
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Feb 20, 2010
I have a MacBookPro5,1 laptop, and I have installed the 64-bit version of Fedora 12 on it, in addition to the Mac OS X operating system. When I'm running Mac OS X, I can connect my 720p Samsung television to the computer through its mini DVI port and the computer will go into a mode that will display on the television.
However, when I'm running Fedora and connect the television nothing happens. What can be done to allow the laptop to display on the television when it is using Fedora?
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