It's also quite fussy when it comes to compatibility because it's an Apple computer and because it ships with components which drivers aren't open-source. I had assumed there would be some initial toruble with the GPU and possibly the wireless card (just not initial install and bootloader).The MacBook Pro is a great piece of hardware and a very popular laptop. Only to have the exact same thing again happen again when I select that single option in the rEFInd boot manager.Īlso thank you for the heads up about the nvidia drivers on the MacBook Pro. So I redid my partitions (sda1: EFI, sda2: /, sda3 /home, and sda4: swap) and reinstalled mint without the bootloader again.

So first time this happened I wondered if the bootloaderless install of mint hadn't quite gone right the first time.

When I select it I get a brief flash (maybe half a second?) of a black screen with a blue bar on it and then I'm right back at the rEFInd boot manager only now the Boot EFI efind efind_圆4.efi from EFI System Partition option is gone.

The only boot option I am given (without the USB stick in) is:īoot EFI efind efind_圆4.efi from EFI System Partition So booting into it via holding the 'option' key on boot I get to the rEFInd menu. I did managed to get rEFInd installed no problem (the easy way). Thanks fabien85! Those are super clear and easy to follow instructions. I've google quite extensively and none of the posts with a similar problem have not proven particularly helpful and I am not at all sure how to proceed. I have also tried installing Mint sans bootloader and although that has succeeded (at least now when I open Install Linux Mint is asks if I wish to install along side Mint 18.3 Sylvia) I am at a loss for how to now get the bootloaders onto the machine. I am definitely booted in EFI mode (I have a EFI system partition that is 512MiB fat32b flagged as boot, esp). The installer gets very close to finishing and then I get a message telling me: No problems making up a boot stick and getting the installer rolling however where I am running into problems is that grub keeps failing to install. Now my experience with Linux is largely limited to Raspbarian and a touch of Ubuntu. Having a spare SSD laying around I figured I'd have a go at installing Mint (Cinnamon) on the machine.

I recently acquired a 2009 MacBook Pro 5.5 that only needed a hard drive in order to function again.

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