Re: Installing a bootloader on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
I've tried the i386 install (v7.7) CD multiple times and I've tried having it put GRUB on the MBR and on the partition and neither way resulted in a bootable install. I think this can be made to work with a bit of twiddling (e.g. using lilo or grub-legacy, or maybe tweaking of the

Re: Installing a bootloader on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-07 Thread Brian Sammon
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:25:37 -0500 Brian Sammon debian-users-l...@brisammon.fastmail.fm wrote: Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't involve buying or borrowing (or borrowing) a copy of OSX? Is it easier to install linux on a USB disk and run it off of that?

Re: Installing a bootloader on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
I've tried the i386 install (v7.7) CD multiple times and I've tried having it put GRUB on the MBR and on the partition and neither way resulted in a bootable install. I think this can be made to work with a bit of twiddling (e.g. using lilo or grub-legacy, or maybe tweaking of the partition

Re: Installing a bootloader on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-07 Thread Brian Sammon
On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:40:33 -0500 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: I've tried the i386 install (v7.7) CD multiple times and I've tried having it put GRUB on the MBR and on the partition and neither way resulted in a bootable install. I think this can be made to work with a