From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA521381F3 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68EDDE0AE9; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aplus.dartworks.biz (aplus.dartworks.biz [206.225.82.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59ABCE09F9 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dartworks.biz (adsl-75-36-228-77.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [::ffff:75.36.228.77]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 mercury) by aplus.dartworks.biz with ESMTPA; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:24:37 -0700 id 000000000037043B.52145D25.00003190 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:24:36 -0700 From: Keith Dart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: marcec@gmx.de Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook Message-ID: <20130820232436.33f349c0@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20130820001508.2d6ec87b@marcec> References: <20130820001508.2d6ec87b@marcec> Organization: Dartworks X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e14cc442-090f-436f-bd8e-7a3ff5eb74e1 X-Archives-Hash: 4da84a496c467fa5a00794f91de6df66 Re , Marc Joliet said: > Now since I am productive with it, I wanted to install Gentoo on it > but have thus far failed. So here are my overall goals: > > - install Gentoo > - ideally ditch OS X > - boot using EFI instead of in BIOS compatibility mode (e.g., I read > that this I had Gentoo on a Macbook before. I used rEFInd to do it, but recent kernels with proper EFI configuration should also work. But no guarantees... Also, it's not enough to just say "MacBook". There are several sub-models of that with different chipsets, GPU, etc. I had it working with Intel chipset and even ran compiz on it. -- Keith -- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Dart public key: ID: 19017044 =====================================================================