- #RUN LINUX ON A MAC WITH BOOTCAMP INSTALL#
- #RUN LINUX ON A MAC WITH BOOTCAMP DRIVERS#
- #RUN LINUX ON A MAC WITH BOOTCAMP UPDATE#
- #RUN LINUX ON A MAC WITH BOOTCAMP DRIVER#
The output from sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 is given below. The output from sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0 is given below.
dev/disk0 (internal, physical):Ģ: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 180.7 GB disk0s2Ĥ: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 70.1 GB disk0s4 The output from diskutil list disk0 is given below. You must disable this before following the commands below.
Note: macOS 10.11 and above have System Integrity Protection (SIP). Create Space on the Drive for Ubuntuįor the purpose of illustrating the steps needed, I created a drive slightly larger than your actual drive.
#RUN LINUX ON A MAC WITH BOOTCAMP UPDATE#
Note: If another user has a different partition scheme than shown in this example, the post a comment to me and I will try to update my answer. Ubuntu to be selected from the Startup Manager.
#RUN LINUX ON A MAC WITH BOOTCAMP INSTALL#
#RUN LINUX ON A MAC WITH BOOTCAMP DRIVERS#
The genius run their little test, they learn of the Linux drivers in firmware and other places and they give you a lame excuse and send you packing.An update version of this has been posted here. If things get hairy with a direct install, your whole Mac could be borked, and with firmware borked pernamently.Īpple doesn't cover user inflicted damage in the warrarnty/AppleCare, running Linux natively (direct boot) can qualify for that. It's very unlikely your going to be doing anything CPU or GPU intense in Linux that you need full hardware support with a direct install, so having it in a virtual machine makes it easy to access, run and roll back to a earlier snapshot if things get a little hairy.
#RUN LINUX ON A MAC WITH BOOTCAMP DRIVER#
With the virtual machine software, (VirtualBox is free and updated for older OS X versions) it jockys the driver and other issues between Linux and your Mac for you.
However Linux types they supply their own and they don't always work as to be expected.Īlso Linux versions come out rapidly, so your always having to fight hardware, software and especially driver issues or get pwned in a heartbeat once they find out your running a older insecure version. With BootCamp, Apple provides compatible hardware drivers for Windows only. If your not super savvy or using a spare Mac/PC's to experiment on, I very HIGHLY recommend you experiment with Linux verisons in a virtual machine program instead if all your using is your main machine. They basically ignore Linux like it doesn't exist. Is there a way to install ubuntu conveniently or Apple don't want users to do so?Īpple doesnt want you too, or else they would have included Linux. I wonder if the new bootcamp still a simple compromise for just windows?īoot Camp is for Windows 7 (and Win 8 for 10.8.3) and not for Linux, at least not supported by Apple.