[Bug 633983] Re: Can't boot Maverick beta amd64 live cd on macbook (EFI)

2010-10-10 Thread SeedOfOnan
I have a March 2009 version of the Mac Mini. I've been a happy customer of 10.04 64 desktop. Today I tried booting ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64 live CD, holding down the key while powering up. The choose-OS screen shows two options for the CD, one labeled 'Windows' and the other EFI. If I select th

[Bug 529904] Re: libparted-2.1 ro funcs writing empty hybrid mbr on gpt disks

2010-03-22 Thread SeedOfOnan
I just installed ubuntu-10.04-beta1-dvd-amd64.iso same as I did above but without seeing this problem again (yay!). And on my mac mini, I might add, lucid is a noticeable improvement over karmic (sweet!). -- libparted-2.1 ro funcs writing empty hybrid mbr on gpt disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 529904] Re: libparted-2.1 ro funcs writing empty hybrid mbr on gpt disks

2010-03-06 Thread SeedOfOnan
Last night I tried installing lucid-alternate-amd64.iso built 05-Mar-2010 07:35 on my mac mini circa March 2009. I manually configure the disk partitions (I changed nothing because I already had the partitions that I needed from Ubuntu 9.10 release) simply marking the existing Ubuntu ext3 partition