[Debconf-discuss] Installing Debian on a macbook pro 5,1

2015-08-17 Thread Eder L. Marques
Hi folks, I noticed that some of you have a MacBook machine here at Debconf, and I am wondering to take advantage of that. Here I have a macbook pro 5,1 (late 2008 - intel cpu), running OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), with Debian in a virtualbox VM. I would like to setup a dual boot configuration w

[Debconf-discuss] Installing Debian on a macbook pro 5,1

2015-08-17 Thread Eder L. Marques
Hi folks, I noticed that some of you have a MacBook machine here at Debconf, and I am wondering to take advantage of that. Here I have a macbook pro 5,1 (late 2008 - intel cpu), running OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), with Debian in a virtualbox VM. I would like to setup a dual boot configuration wi

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Installing Debian on a macbook pro 5,1

2015-08-18 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-08-17 18:14, Eder L. Marques wrote: > My first question is: > - Is rEFIt or rEFInd still necessary? No, it isn't. Booting grub from the EFI system partition works just fine here, however, you might need to use the "bless" utility within OSX to get grub to boot by default. (The latter could

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Installing Debian on a macbook pro 5,1

2015-08-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:00:38AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2015-08-17 18:14, Eder L. Marques wrote: > > My first question is: > > - Is rEFIt or rEFInd still necessary? > > No, it isn't. Booting grub from the EFI system partition works just fine > here, however, you might need to use t