[ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Wed Feb 22 20:37:32 EST 2012


I would be curious to know what errors you encountered. Did the CD simply refuse to boot? Anything mentioned about the chipset? Reading up on Google, it looks like Linux is using something called UEFI but Apple only supports EFI booting. I read this from one article:

Caution for Mac owners

From Ubuntu 11.04 onwards (x86_64 only), the ISO CD supports UEFI booting and the Ubuntu installer will try to set up the bootloader for (U)EFI boot. But the installer formats the EFI System Partition to FAT16 (even if the filesystem is non-empty) and also uses efibootmgr, therefore Intel Macs may fail to boot due to corrupted firmware. This feature is not recommended on Mac models because it can corrupt the firmware. You will need to reflash the firmware to repair it.

Here is the link to the full article: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting

I don't think this is Apple intentionally locking anyone out. It is that Apple's firmware does not (yet) support UEFI. 

Bob


On Feb 22, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Roger Eller wrote:

> They sure do lock their hardware (the new stuff anyway)!  We tried to boot
> from at least 10 Live-CDs from a variety of popular and unknown distros.
> This was on the absolute latest MacBook Pro!  You could only run Linux in
> a VM.  No native boot except for OS X.
> 
> ~Roger
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
>> I am not aware that Apple locks their hardware so that you cannot run
>> other systems. They do however go to great lengths to make sure their
>> system cannot be installed on other hardware (which they are not entirely
>> successful at btw).
>> 
>> I think the problem is that the Linux drivers have to work with what
>> hardware you provide, and obviously in this case, they don't. Why would
>> Apple lock a Macbook out of Linux and allow a Macbook Pro?? That sounds
>> absurd to me.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>>  On Feb 22, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Tim Jones wrote:
>> 
>>> I installed SuSE's PPC version on my White G4 and got 1280 x 1024, so
>> it's not the video card, it's the lock that Apple put on it to make you buy
>> a PowerBook (or Mac Book Pro).
>>> 
>>> Tim
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