I tried installing gNewSense on an Intel iMac desktop, and the installer crashed when trying to install grub, I guess because of the EFI/BIOS thing. This is a known Ubuntu bug (#46853), which has been fixed in 7.04. Is there anyone working on this, or are we waiting for gNewSense to catch up to 7.04? It seems like if gNewSense just doesn't run on Intel Macs, that's a problem. Has anyone been able to get it working?
I ended up just installing Ubuntu 7.04, which is too bad, because I'd like to support GNU as much as possible.
Give gNewSense 2.0 a try, it's based on Hardy Heron.
nimda? — 06 February 2009, 01:31
I've attempted to install gNewSense deltah 2.1 on an Intel Mac Mini, but it hangs on the splash screen, at the "boot:" prompt. Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks.
Cobalt — 06 February 2009, 03:00
Doesn't the image need to be built for the architecture (PPC, x86, etc.)?
Tor? — 06 February 2009, 08:30
Cobalt: Not surprising to find a FS advocate not paying attention to the current state of Macs, but there are quite a lot of Intel X86 Macs hanging around these days, which is what this question is about.
It appears that this is an old question revived for a re-occurrence of a similar question, which can add to the confusion.
I'm afraid that I haven't tried installing gNewSense on the Mac Mini (another Intel) around here (not exactly mine, low disk space, feels a bit blackboxish to me), so I don't have direct experience to help you with.
Tor
Please consider buying a pc from a company like Los Alamos Computers that sells computers with gNewSense preinstalled and gives a part of the money to the FSF:
http://laclinux.com/
Also, the camera on some recent Macs requires a binary blob and the wireless chipset (Broadcom) is non-free.
Has anyone tried dual booting on a recent iMac desktop? If yes, how did it go and did you have to do anything special?
I'd like to dual boot first then remove OS X once I can do everything I want on gGnuSense.
Does anyone know if gGnuSense works nicely in the native mode of the Intel Core2DUO? I suppose that's an AMD64 issue...
Oh what the hell. I'll try the live CD and post back here! :)
Oh sorry. gNewSense, not gGnuSense...
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