Colin Watson, I was affecated by this bug in natty 11.04 breaked my Mac. But 11.10 is fixed, now it installs GREAT in EFI mode, so it is no need to bios emulation as all features that worked in bios emulation works in efi mode, including binary nvidia driver. And EFI mode gives better performance.
Also, Dario Bertini (berdario) wrote on 2011-09-06: #123 I don't have the problem myself, but I have a friend who does... I asked him to try and he reported me that indeed in oneiric the problem doesn't seem to appear ** Also affects: linux Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: linux Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774089 Title: Booting fails 3 times, works every fourth time after new install of Natty Narwhal amd64 on Macbook Pro To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/efibootmgr/+bug/774089/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs