#PUTTING LINUX ON A MAC PRO 2 INSTALL#
#PUTTING LINUX ON A MAC PRO 2 64 BIT#
#PUTTING LINUX ON A MAC PRO 2 SOFTWARE#
#PUTTING LINUX ON A MAC PRO 2 ISO#

Then I also have root : dir ' EFI ' containing => dir ' boot ' containing => bootia32.efi I made a new diretory 'boot' ( root of the USB stick ) containing :Дir : grub containing 2 files => ' grub.cfg ' and ' loopback.cfg ' in refind there should be an entry called something like 'Boot fallback bootloader from EFI' with a linux icon (either the generic penguin, or an ubuntu or mint icon, most probably the generic penguin), and an external disk badge at the bottom right of the icon. eject the USB, shutdown, plug it back, boot and get to refind screen copy the bootloader to the fallback location on the stick : EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi (you will need to create the directory EFI/ at the root of the USB, and BOOT/ inside it)

#PUTTING LINUX ON A MAC PRO 2 ISO#

burn the 32-bit ISO to a USB stick with whatever you want (from OSX use unetbootin, from windows use Rufus, from Mint use mintstick)

#PUTTING LINUX ON A MAC PRO 2 INSTALL#

from OSX, install refind instead of refit I have done this successfully on a 2004 MacBook in the past.

Only detail is that Mint 32-bit ISO do not ship with a EFI bootloader so we have to correct this. If you dont succeed to boot the CD/DVD, we will have to do with a USB stick. Ok, it's one of those models which has a 64-bit processor but a 32-bit EFI.

Once refind is installed, booting a USB stick will be as easy as plugging the USB (with the machine shut down), booting and getting in the refind menu, and choosing the entry to boot the USB stick. Note: if your OSX is 10.11 (El Capitan) or 10.12 (Sierra), you will need to disable System Integrity Protection to install refind, see this page.ДЄlso after install go in the refind info screen (blue (i) icon) and find whether your EFI is 32-bit or 64-bit. Refind will make it easier already to boot the USB stick, and you can use it later as a boot manager for your dual-boot (if you want to dual-boot, o you ? you never said so) Then reboot just to check it works and can boot your OSX. If you dont have yet linux installed on the mac, you surely cant use mintstick from the mac.ДЄ good first step : install refind. Mintstick only works from linux, so I dont understand 'but the mac couldn't even mount the disk'. What did you try to boot the USB stick ? You have to insert it and press alt during boot. Go to About this Mac > More Info / System report > Hardware and find the model identifier, as in the third image on this Apple page : Or the machine is old enough that it boots only in certain modes. If that's not working, it may be the indication that your Mac is 32-bit (at least the firmware) and you made a 64-bit CD. Or press Alt and select the CD in the Apple boot manager.

#PUTTING LINUX ON A MAC PRO 2 SOFTWARE#

To burn the iso to a USB, one simple solution from OSX is to use unetbootin.Д«ut if you have access to windows, you would better use Rufus which is more reliable.ДЄnd if you already have a Mint, you can use the built-in utility mintstick, available in the mint menu, or you can install usb-creator-gtk from the software manager.Д«y the way, if you Mac is 64-bit, you should be able to boot the CD by inserting it, shutting down the Mac and restarting it pressing C during boot. I'm writing this from a MacBookPro7,1 and have also installed Mint on an older 32-bit MacBook). There are several forum members here which have experience with Macs (e.g. Dont try to mix different guides, that's a recipe for disaster.Д«est to ask question when you are unsure what to do or dont understand fully instructions. You will find many different guides on the internet to put linux on a mac some will be recent, some older, and you will always get conflicting information because there are different possible approaches (booting in Legacy or EFI mode with refit or refind or grub with the bootloader in the MBR or on the ESP or on a dedicated hfs+ partition.). You can get info about your hardware from 'About this Mac' in OSX.ДЄlso, do you want to single boot Mint or dual-boot with OSX ? That changes the situation. Be careful it's exactly your model, some look very close but have differences which are important for the following.

Please specify your model by giving the corresponding specification page on. Simplest is to use a 32-bit Mint version.

#PUTTING LINUX ON A MAC PRO 2 64 BIT#

Less old models, but still old, are a mix between 32 and 64 bit : CPU is 64-bit but EFI is 32-bit. Among them, old models are 32-bit, so you need a 32-bit Mint version. The oldest models are power-pc instead of intel, and Mint will not work on this I think. First you need to specify which mac model you are speaking about.

Putting linux on a mac pro 2