I have crafted a update-efi-booter script which automates the booting
approach described in
http://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs171/materials/pdfs/How_to_Dual-
Boot_OSX_and_Ubuntu.pdf where the /boot/efi partition on Macs are kept
as HFS+ so that the boot selector can be made aware of the bootable
boo
I finally got this to work. The only real requirement for this to work
is the the a boot partition that is FAT32 was exist for the Mac EFI
firmware to see and that this partition must contain the fake
mach_kernel file and a System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
file containing...
err, that should have been MacBook Pro 2,1
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Title:
Ubuntu should install mach_kernel and System directory in boot/EFI
like Fedora 24 and fallba
After struggling this for the better part of a week, the best solution I
have found is to abandon the Ubuntu 16.10 installers entirely and use
debian-8.6.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso which works perfectly on a MacBook
Pro 3,1. A workable approach I believe is to do as bare-bones an
installation as poss
FYI, I strongly urge the interested Ubuntu developers to carefully read
the following thread in the fedora-devel mailing list where the Fedora
developers discuss the specific changes made and known behaviors of
booting on EFI-32 with Fedora 25...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/de...
