Ubuntu - native on MacBook

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Mar 31 14:44:00 BST 2006


On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:27:57PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> These patches are all now in the Ubuntu kernel but there's some weirdness
> with the HFS+ overlay partition and there was also a problem with being able
> to build the bootloader owing to the toolchain on Ubuntu;  At the moment the
> current Flight CDs won't actually boot (even if the rest of the
> infrastructure is there on the CDs).
> 
> Hopefully this will be solved in a little while :)

Somebody needs to add HFS+ hybrid support to mkisofs; at present it only
supports plain HFS, which the Intel Mac firmware doesn't understand. I
won't have time to do this for at least the next few weeks.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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