Ubuntu / Apple :: Cannot Swap Boot Order - Emac?
Feb 3, 2011
With my ubuntu iso in the dvd drive, I do not get any boot from options for it to be used as boot drive within the boot order from the boot control panel. On startup with the alt key pressed I only get the Mac drive but when I change the boot to the other option (network) and press the alt key on startup, I get the boot order screen with the Mac HD and also the Ubuntu iso but cannot get the Ubuntu to highlight and use, just the Mac remains highlighted. On the same screen I get a very small wrist watch to the left of the screen that the mouse can move up and down but not to the side.
I am using a windows usb keyboard and usb mouse, I have used all manner of keyboard combinations to get the Ubuntu disc to highlight but nothing seems to work. Within the drive section, the "My Mac" drive is locked and cannot partition it or change anything about it. Has anyone any ideas that I can try? I did not want to get a Mac keyboard and Mouse as yet seeing as I wish to change the operating system to ubuntu.
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Jul 2, 2010
I have downloaded the Ubuntu 10.04 alternate PPC to install on my old emac.
It starts fine the installation process, and I want to have only Ubuntu on this machine so I erased all the mac partitions and create 3 new partitions
/ = root
swap
and /home
Everything goes well until I get the message that there is not a partition called Apple_bootstrap and I get stuck there.
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Oct 19, 2010
I snagged the 10.10 alternate install ISO for PPC and got it up and running on a 1ghz G4 eMac with 1gb of RAM and a 60gb HDD. It runs... OK. It could be a lot better. I'm planning to shut off the bluetooth and CUPS services since neither apply to this system; are there any other services I can shut down, or any other tricks I could do to make it run a bit more smoothly?
What about alternate window managers? I realise that the PPC platform kinda limits me, but what about TWM or FVWM?
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Aug 16, 2010
How can I make Compiz work on this eMac? It's the original, 700 MHz, 1 GB RAM, Ubuntu 10.04. It was enough trying to get the xorg.conf file to show any video, but now I want to be able to use compiz so I can have a faster experience.
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Jul 28, 2011
I recently came into (temp) possession of two Original, white, 700 MHz eMacs. I have only started to play on one of these so far. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 PPC from Alternate Install CD - two times actually (because I thought I may have screwed something up the first time), but both times it seemed to go without a hitch.
After install and restart, I cannot drop into a shell, all I get is the black screen. I'm probably forgetting something really obvious, but I've tried Holding "Shift" and "F1" and control+alt+F1 (and F2, F3, F4, F5, F6), tried the esc key; with two different Apple USB keyboards. I'm really just wanting to load an xorg.conf file and reboot.
Should I have been trying to do this just after install, but before restarting? I can get into Open Firmware just fine, but have no idea what I'd do from OF except start off the CD again. I should mention I installed Debian just fine and am pretty confident MintPPC would work flawlessly, but I am trying to get Ubuntu 10.04 on here.
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Mar 12, 2011
I've got a mate that wants to put windows 7 dual boot with osx on his mac book pro. I have talked him into putting Ubuntu on as well I just don't know how and in what order. So what is the best way to do it? Any good websites/tutorials?
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Jun 20, 2011
I have tried eject /dev/cdrom, sudo eject, pressing the eject button but whenever i do , it just opens for like 1 second then closes right back. is this fixable within Xubuntu, or is this a physical problem with the cd drive?
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Oct 12, 2010
how I could file share, or make the whole Hard Drive (HDD) accessible to another computer. The two other computers I have are a Toshiba Laptop with Ethernet and USB, and a iMac Intel with Firewire, USB, and Ethernet. Putting these to use along with:
Three Ethernet Cables
Two Printer Peripheral USB Cables
The Two Computers
A 2GB Flash Drive
That is all I can think of right now. I do not want to use CDs. In a way, I would like to do a network boot. So, how do I get the whole HDD visible to the others computers (either/both) and be able to write to it? I want to put Xubuntu on it, and earse the rest of the Hard Drive. The computers getting this are the iMac G3s and the eMac G4. The eMac has 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD, and a 700MHz processor. Two iMacs have 128MB RAM, 40GB HDD, and a 600MHz Processor. The other iMac is the same as the rest but has a 500MHz processor.
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Aug 18, 2010
I am planning to do a full install of Ubuntu 10.04 on my eMac G4 Power PC (PPC). It has 512 MB of RAM, 40 GB of space, and its running Mac 10.4.11 Tiger.
I need help booting off the DVD. Can anyone Give me a guide on how to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a old eMac G4 Power PC?
I plan to install this instead of the Mac OS because it is very slow and buggy.
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Nov 11, 2010
I am putting ubuntu onto a ppc (emac 1.25Ghz) and I was wondering weather to go with the last officially supported release (6.10) or to try the newest (10.10)?
The machine will only be used to play music and brows the web, nothing heavy but it MUST play flash content (primarily from .....). I have had varying degrees of success on an older G4 ppc (700 Mhz) but never got it to play flash. are the open source alternatives to flash any good on the machine?
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Sep 21, 2010
So now I've got my iMac G3 running nicely I was wondering how I go about running a burn in test so that I can see if I can improve the cooling in places by manipulating airflow, I have a thermal cam but I want the machine running maxed out in order to see where things can be improved.CPUBurn in the repos isn't coded for PPC, only x86 x86_64.
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Feb 9, 2011
I am installing Ubuntu on the same hard drive as Windows 7. The partitions of Windows 7 have already occupied the left part of the hard drive. From left to right, the Windows partitions are one partition for Windows booting, one for Windows OS and software installation, and one for data which is planned to mount on Ubuntu. I was wondering how to arrange the order of partitions of root, home and swap, i.e. which is on the left just besides one Windows partition, which is in the middle and which is on the far right?
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Dec 2, 2010
I have been given an Apple Ibook that wont boot
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Jan 6, 2010
I upgraded from XP to Windows 7 (I need this for legacy business) and decided to install Ubuntu permanently rather than using from CD. During an Ubuntu session I was prompted to upgrade, which I did, but when I boot up now, there seems to be 2 versions of Ubuntu which I can choose from the boot up menu, plus the usual mem test, safe mode etc, plus the option to boot Windows 7.
Firstly, is there in fact more than one Ubuntu image (and therefore precious disk space taken up), how do I find out, and if so what action should I take?If there is only one Ubuntu and one Windows 7 image, how do I edit (and where is the file) to change the boot order and the various boot selections?
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Mar 7, 2010
I'm running 9.10 off of a 4 GiB CF card. I keep running into space issues with updates, so I purchased an 8 GiB replacement card. I've cloned the 4 GiB card to a .IMG file using DD.I've then copied the 4 GiB image back to the 8 GiB card using the Ubuntu startup disk creator program. Once done, I'm able to properly boot off of the new 8 GiB clone.Unfortunately, the clone ends up with 3.67 GiB of unallocated space at the end *see attached). I tried deleting the "extended" partition that the swap is located at after booting from a Live CD and the system was unable to boot after this. I was thinking that I would delete the swap entirely and create a swap file after I merged the existing partitions, but I was unable to do this.
best way to do this (e.g. get one large 8 GiB partition with my old image on it)? I still have the original untouched 4 GiB card and also have an external CF drive if I need to redo the cloning. I've also used Clonezilla before, so perhaps there's a way to do this that allow me to grow the image as it's being cloned.
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Jun 15, 2011
Dual booting Windows 7 and Fedora 15. What I would like to know is if I can change the boot order to boot Windows 7 first and Fedora 15 as other or second.
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Jun 24, 2011
I am working on another's Dell Inspiron 530 with Vista 64-bit; see below:
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wanting a dual-boot, 500GB hdd was formatted as above, Win Vista x64 Recovery CD was created, and antiX-M11 (as Swift Linux 0_1_1) installed. Now, at startup, machine boots to antiX and not Vista. User wants it the other way around. I think I should have reordered the partitions and not installed GRUB in MBR. EasyBCD is the preferred boot loader for User. This is a learning experience but due to time constraints and not being at my home where references are available, EasyBCD is on a USB stick -- should I boot to the Vista Recovery CD and then try to install EasyBCD to sda3 from it, uninstall antiX (but this will not fix the MBR problem, will it?), or edit fstab or what
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Jan 8, 2010
I'm getting a new HDD today. I have SATA 500GB, and I'm getting SATA II 500gb. This is what I wanted to ask. On my first HDD, I have Windows XP and ubuntu and on the new HDD, I will install Windows 7. What I wanted to ask, are such things like jumpers on my HDD (master/slave etc.) used to select boot order? Or will I have to go into BOOT settings and choose Win7 Hdd first in the boot order etc.?
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Apr 24, 2010
I've installed the ubuntu 9.10 in my pc. But, I want to trade the order of the boot, because my brothers use windows. I know how to do it in the version 9.04 in the directory /boot/grub trading the configuration of the file menu.lst ,but i cannot find this same file in this new version. How should I do?
PS: my version is ubuntu 9.10 amd 64bits
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Oct 23, 2010
Just installed Ubuntu 10.4 on a computer that normally runs XP Pro. I used a separate drive and unplugged the windows drive while installing Ubuntu (error number one right?). Ubuntu installed perfectly, plugged in windows drive, Windows boots perfectly. My only problem is that I don't have the boot list option unless I go into the BIOS and change default boot drive every time I want to switch OS.After a bit of research I configured GRUB to allow me to dual boot (Windows did not appear at first), but it boots directly into Ubuntu (fine for me, but my mother uses XP for work) instead of Windows. Unfortunately I have some sort of keyboard issue that makes the arrow keys inoperable until the machine has once booted into an OS.
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May 20, 2011
I have a dual boot linux system with Mint 10 and Ubuntu 11. Currently Mint is the first OS in the boot order. How difficult is it to change that config so that Ubuntu is first (or default) and Mint second ?
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Jul 22, 2011
I want to find ou t when you boot it can you press any key 0r keys to get to CMOS. Also if I wanted to have both win95 and ubuntu how would I do That?
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Apr 7, 2010
I use dual OS, n i have a problem when i want to set boot order. Can i change boot order? or can i make a priority for my OS?
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May 8, 2010
I have installed ubuntu 10.04 and kubuntu 10.04 on different partition (same hard drive). and window 7 on a different hard drive.
The boot menu order now is 1. kubuntu 2. memtest 3. window 7 4. ubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.32.22
I want to change to Code:
1. ubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.32.22 2. window 7 3. kubuntu 4. memtest
These are the files in my ubuntu /etc/grub.d:
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/etc/grub.d$ ls
00_header* 10_linux* 30_os-prober* README
05_debian_theme* 20_memtest86+* 40_custom*
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Jul 5, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 x64 in a three-boot configuration; the first boot choice screen (the one I would like to change) gives the options of booting to Ubuntu, 3 options I don't understand, and booting to Windows 7. Unfortunately, at least for me, Ubuntu is at the top and is the default. [The third choice is Win XP x32 - but it appears on a separate screen]
My question: How can I make the boot to Windows 7 the default choice?
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Jul 13, 2010
I want to change the default boot from Ubuntu to windows xp. What file do I need to edit to make that change? In other distros the file is grub.lst but I can not locate that file name in Ubuntu.
I can find the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg that looks like what I need but has a warning "DO NOT EDIT",
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Sep 15, 2010
I've bought a low-spec mini-netbook (the ALLFINE PC703) and I want to install Debian W/O a GUI on it. The trouble is I cannot get to the bios in order to boot from the USB and it says on the box (in very small print) that users cannot install other OSes then the pre-installed Windows CE. Windows CE wont run the Wubi so I can't install ubuntu on it either. How can I bypass these incoviences and get Debian up and running.
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Oct 19, 2010
how to change the order of GRUB. I found someone who asked in '06 but I believe the method has changed. I want windows (The bottom on the list) to start without me having to select it.
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Jan 28, 2011
I want to find ou t when you boot it can you press any key 0r keys to get to CMOS. Also if I wanted to have both win95 and ubuntu how would I do That?
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Mar 18, 2011
I am trying to change the default gnu grub boot order to first go to windows 7. I entered gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst and it opened up the file but the file was blank.It didn't show me the 5 or 6 possible choices.
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