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Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:08 am
by Yellowhoney
I have read through a few posts but I can't get my head around how to install MX 18.3 to a 2007 Imac 2007
I got my hands on a free iMac 2007, the HDD was removed, I brought and installed a new SSD ( i don't have any MAC os CD or USB stick to run mac os )
so I've been googling and found out these macs only have 32 bit EFI , some post have talked about rEFIed or rEFInd ,
I've tried using these IOS but didn't work
https://mattgadient.com/2016/07/11/linu ... ment-52803
Do I need to have EXT4 or install anything else?
I don't have a clue how to get it running
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Could someone walk me through the steps?
What i have done:
Created Live USB manage to run and install
after a reboot, it only shows a gray folder with a question mark .
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:13 am
by fehlix
Yellowhoney wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:08 am
Created Live USB manage to run and install
So you could boot with the MX 18.3 x64 Live iso from the Live USB. OK.
Could you also tell us how exactly you created the LiveUSB from
the MX 18.3 x64 iso.
Suggest we start here:
Reboot again with the LiveUSB, and do post "Quick System Info" from the running system.
.. and we go from there ...
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:19 am
by Yellowhoney
fehlix wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:13 am
Yellowhoney wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:08 am
Created Live USB manage to run and install
So you could boot with the MX 18.3 x64 Live iso from the Live USB. OK.
Could you also tell us how exactly you created the LiveUSB from
the MX 18.3 x64 iso.
Suggest we start here:
Reboot again with the LiveUSB, and do post "Quick System Info" from the running system.
.. and we go from there ...
download main .iso and tried 2nd way with
https://mattgadient.com/2018/02/12/redu ... t-efi-macs, rufus ( windows ) > to USB i I didn't do the step you mention with the tool
but after the install
starting from scratch what IOS should i be downloading from ?
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:54 am
by JayM
For those of us unfamiliar with Macs, what's an IOS?
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:10 am
by Yellowhoney
Ive pull 1 stick of ram out , because i thought it might be faulty ( it take a long time to load EFI ) ( 7-10 min)
but now i think it because it USB1 right ?
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System: Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum May 26 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Apple product: iMac7,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F4238CC8 v: PVT serial: <filter> UEFI: Apple
v: IM71.88Z.007A.B01.0707251237 date: 07/25/07
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T7300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom
rev: B L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 7980
Speed: 1790 MHz min/max: 800/2000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1197
Graphics: Device-1: AMD RV610/M74 [Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT] vendor: Apple driver: radeon
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV610 (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-5-amd64 LLVM 7.0.0)
v: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.6 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-5-amd64
Network: Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme
driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 3000 bus ID: 04:00.0
Device-2: Marvell 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: 2000
bus ID: 05:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 231.04 GiB used: 27.9 MiB (0.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDX240GG25 size: 223.57 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: General USB Flash Disk size: 7.47 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 750.0 MiB used: 22.4 MiB (3.0%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.00 GiB used: 5.5 MiB (0.2%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 34 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1197
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 181 Uptime: 1m Memory: 983.7 MiB used: 485.4 MiB (49.3%) Init: SysVinit
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33
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Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:11 am
by Yellowhoney
JayM wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:54 am
For those of us unfamiliar with Macs, what's an IOS?
TYPO i ment ISO
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:43 am
by JayM
Oh, OK.
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:59 am
by fehlix
Yellowhoney wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:10 am
Ive pull 1 stick of ram out , because i thought it might be faulty ( it take a long time to load EFI ) ( 7-10 min)
but now i think it because it USB1 right ?
I'm not fully understand what you are talking about.... but anyway,
As you are now booting with the Live USB.
Do post the output
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:33 am
by Yellowhoney
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$ sudo lsblk -f
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
loop0 squashfs /live/linux
sda
└─sda3 swap d7e8182c-0d50-47ad-8902-337e8e2f9097 [SWAP]
sdb iso9660 antiXlive 2019-05-26-00-15-38-00
├─sdb1 iso9660 antiXlive 2019-05-26-00-15-38-00 /live/boot-dev
└─sdb2 vfat MX-uefi 03C5-9D27
sr0
demo@mx1:~
$ sudo parted --list
Model: ATA SanDisk SDSSDX24 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
3 237GB 240GB 3217MB linux-swap(v1)
Model: General USB Flash Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8023MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
2 182kB 3594kB 3412kB primary esp
demo@mx1:~
$
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:54 am
by fehlix
Yellowhoney wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:33 am
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$ sudo lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
sda3 swap d7e8182c-0d50-47ad-8902-337e8e2f9097 [SWAP]
$ sudo parted --list
Model: ATA SanDisk SDSSDX24 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
3 237GB 240GB 3217MB linux-swap(v1)
Hmm ..not sure how to read this...only swap partition is seen.
Suggest to reinstall. Do select autoinstall on the whole drive.
Do start the install in this way:
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sudo -E minstall 2>&1 | tee -a my_install.log
When installer finshes don't reboot yet, do post the my_install.log here.
Reboot with the LiveUSB and run again
and also
If after reboot more partitions are seen, we might still need to fix
the 32bit UEFI with installing the 32bit grub-efi bootloader manually.
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:02 am
by Yellowhoney
Do I use the entire disk ? or custom
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:08 am
by dwarfxe
Are you going to wipe out mac os on the disk and go full linux? If so then you may use the entire disk as it's the easiest option. It's also easy to have separate partitions for root and home but not necessary.
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:59 am
by fehlix
Yellowhoney wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:02 am
Do I use the entire disk ? or custom
If you can use entire disk please do so and let this installer do use and create all needed partitions,
do also post the log after installation, in case any error or warning was shown...
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:42 am
by Yellowhoney
update :
It looks like my SSD was shiting the bed, when the installer was running it said some thing about the Trim had erros
so I brought a new SSD today, plug in my USB stick and tested the install, work perfect first go
saved the log,( i did what you said with the log if you need it) rebooted and check the fsdisk.
I thought I better check, rebooted without the USB and it work first go ....YA sooo happy .
I also notice straight away that when installing the new SSD , when I was holding alt ( comand ) that the EFI would come up instantly and load the USB, which never happen before use to take 10 min to load USB ( i thought it was faulty ram )
Re: Help installing to Mac 2007
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:57 am
by handy
@Yellowhoney, I bet your happy now.
It is such a pain when we have an undiagnosed hardware problem, especially when we are in unfamiliar territory. Causes us to waste so much time doing stuff that we don't really need to be doing.
We don't know what we don't know...
