- #How to install linux on mac bootcamp how to#
- #How to install linux on mac bootcamp install#
- #How to install linux on mac bootcamp drivers#
- #How to install linux on mac bootcamp pro#
#How to install linux on mac bootcamp drivers#
Apple even provides Windows drivers in Boot Camp, so could I not run Windows natively without using Boot Camp?
#How to install linux on mac bootcamp pro#
Rather than apply the rather lengthily workaround that was suggested (but questionable), I instead got to thinking: Most, if not all, the hardware in the Mac Pro are standard PC cards or PC chips – the processor, RAM, video (nVidia GeForce GT 120), sound, network, and the like all had PC roots and PC drivers. Trusting DuckDuckGo, I went out on the web to search for it, and in three Windows forums, fellow Boot Camp users were reporting the same issue with their apps. Uttering a few swear words that would peal the paint of a ship, I rebooted. Coming back, I decided I would check Facebook, and again the same memory error occurred after just 5 minutes. Suddenly it quit to the Desktop! An error message appeared whose details basically told me that the game had violated rules on memory. The adrenalin was coursing through my veins as I sent in 94 Defiant class ships armed with the experimental “Critical Shot” ability through the wormhole to begin the destruction of Romulan forces. I had set up a brilliant torpedo/phaser defensive system and was constructing a fleet of Defiant class ships to take on all six Romulan players – six against one, the kind of odds I thrive on. It is, in the words of the developers, “a popular skirmish and multiplayer orientated total conversion modification for Activision’s real-time strategy game, Star Trek: Armada II.” It is a Windows game, and for that I was booted into Windows 7 via Boot Camp on a Mac Pro 3,1 machine. I have done this before with a late 2008 MBP so hopefully it still works more recent models.I was playing my favorite game the other day, Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations. If it was me I would leave OSX intact with very little space in case Apple pushed firmware updates later, which typically happens a handful of times in the lifetime of the product. In OSX you can see which partition is running the OS using the command diskutil list in Terminal. Be careful not to modify the efi reserved partitions if you choose to expand, only expand into the main partition which OSX was using. You do not have to, but you can then expand CentOS to take the whole partition using a GParted Live CD. If you need to go back to OSX hold option at boot.
#How to install linux on mac bootcamp install#
Once the install completes, make sure that Startup Disk in System Preferences defaults to the CentOS install. Install only using the space allocated for the bootcamp partition. You would need a Windows disk for the Bootcamp wizard to set up the disk, then when it reboots hold the eject key during the chime to kick out the Windows disc and insert CentOS. It's not the most graceful solution but you should be able to install CentOS by tricking Bootcamp.
#How to install linux on mac bootcamp how to#
I put my iso file on the USB-stick by following the Ubuntu instructions.Īny suggestion on how to go further in the installation process? Please check your parameters and try again. The installation source given by device could not be found. I have tried with them all, but if I choose e.g. Here I have really no idea what name my USB-stick has. Then I'm supposed to choose a partition that holds the installation image for CentOS, the choice is between /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3 or /dev/sdb1. The choice is CD/DVD, Hard drive, NFS directory or URL, and I have a USB-stick, so I choose Hard drive. Now I had to select an installation medium. UPDATE: the suggestion of adding noapic to the boot took me further in the installation process. Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.86_64 #1Īny suggestions what the problem is? Do I need a different binary to be able to run on an Mac?Īccording to a tweet, CentOS 6.4 seem to work, at least on older, Mac Mini's: Kernel panic - not syncing: No mapping iommu for ioapic 2 I downloaded CentOS-6.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso and booted the Mac Mini from a USB-stick.īut during the installation process I get these errors: dmar: No ASTR found I have bought a new Mac Mini, and would like to use it as a Linux server.