Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Hore
Hi Andu, Still no success, sorry. Here's a rundown of what I did: 1. Rebooted, entered the rEFIt partitioner. Synced the MBR. Seemed to be OK. Afterwards I reentered the partitioner, just for curiosity, but this time I got the message Analysis inconclusive, will not touch this disk.

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Hore
Hi again Andu, I should have added, that in all cases I installed GRUB on my Linux partition (/dev/sda2), not the MBR. Also I always set the bootable flag on that partition to on. Is this what I should be doing? Cheers, Mike.

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-13 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-06-13 11:39, Mike Hore wrote: I should have added, that in all cases I installed GRUB on my Linux partition (/dev/sda2), not the MBR. Also I always set the bootable flag on that partition to on. Is this what I should be doing? Install Grub in the MBR, that's the trick! What else

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Hore
On 13/06/11 8:45 PM, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2011-06-13 11:39, Mike Hore wrote: I should have added, that in all cases I installed GRUB on my Linux partition (/dev/sda2), not the MBR. Also I always set the bootable flag on that partition to on. Is this what I should be doing? Install Grub

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Hore
On 13/06/11 9:08 PM, Mike Hore wrote: On 13/06/11 8:45 PM, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2011-06-13 11:39, Mike Hore wrote: I should have added, that in all cases I installed GRUB on my Linux partition (/dev/sda2), not the MBR. Also I always set the bootable flag on that partition to on. Is this

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/11 21:20, Mike Hore wrote: On 13/06/11 9:08 PM, Mike Hore wrote: On 13/06/11 8:45 PM, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2011-06-13 11:39, Mike Hore wrote: I should have added, that in all cases I installed GRUB on my Linux partition (/dev/sda2), not the MBR. Also I always set the bootable flag

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Hore
On 13/06/11 10:01 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: ... Just one more quick question -- in one of my earlier failed attempts I reformatted the MBR -- should it be FAT32 or what? I think that's what I've got it at now. -- Mike. ---

[solved] Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-13 Thread Mike Hore
Hi Andu and Scott, Thanks for all your help! I installed again, put GRUB on the MBR this time, rebooted, synced the MBR in rEFIt, selected Linux and rebooted, and Linux came up! So hopefully I can get my system all set up now. Cheers, Mike.

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-12 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-06-12 04:26, Mike Hore wrote: 3. Install rEFIt on the Mac. Don't forget to run enable-always.sh. It's installed, but I don't know what you mean by enable-always.sh. Sorry, I'm new to this. In MacOS, open up a terminal, go to /efi/refit/ and run 'enable-always.sh' so rEFIt is invoked

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-12 Thread Mike Hore
Hi Andu, On 2011-06-12 04:26, Mike Hore wrote: 3. Install rEFIt on the Mac. Don't forget to run enable-always.sh. It's installed, but I don't know what you mean by enable-always.sh. Sorry, I'm new to this. In MacOS, open up a terminal, go to /efi/refit/ and run 'enable-always.sh' so rEFIt

Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-11 Thread Mike Hore
Hi folks, I've had Debian installed on a PPC iMac for a long time now, and I've now also picked up a used Intel iMac (from about 2006 - processor is 32-bit). I've downloaded and burned a netinst CD for squeeze, but the installation seems remarkably obscure. I've found a few articles, and

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-11 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-06-11 14:14, Mike Hore wrote: I've installed EFI to control which partition to boot off. Do you mean http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ? You can't install EFI, it's already on the machine like BIOS was on old hardware. There's a Wiki article about Intel Macs, but it talks about custom

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-11 Thread Mike Hore
On 12/06/11 12:37 AM, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2011-06-11 14:14, Mike Hore wrote: I've installed EFI to control which partition to boot off. Do you mean http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ? You can't install EFI, it's already on the machine like BIOS was on old hardware. Hi Andreas -- yes, I