Im surprised to see MBP5.1 users having problems with booting into Ubuntu. ive run ubuntu successfully for the last three releases when using the proprietary nvidia driver
What usually messed things up for me was what card was selected in OSX as the active card. toggling this might be what gets you booted (my macbook has the 9600 and the 9400 nvidia card) into the installation. Also , i run my macbook in efi mode nowdays, all works fine except that one needs to add a more up to date backlight module adding this to grub console will disable your 9600 card before booting into your os and hence save battery. outb 0x728 2 outb 0x710 2 outb 0x740 2 outb 0x750 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546393 Title: MacBook Pro 5,1 / 5,2 / 5,3 / 5,5 fails to boot into 12.04 desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nouveau/+bug/546393/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
