Macbook

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 10/11/06, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes <luis.strano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've a few questions regarding Ubuntu's support for the Intel-based
> Macbooks.
> I've installed BootCamp, separateda 30gb partition for linux, and then
> installed refit too. I tried to install Fedora Core 6,and it did
> install flawlessly (but it had quite a few problems afterwards). I
> want to install Edgy, but I've a few doubts :
>
> 1) Where do I tell the installer to put Grub ? I heard using the MBR
> didn't work, so
> I tried to tell it to use /dev/sda3 and it just crashed the installer ;


You _can_ install GRUB on the MBR.

2) How do I avoid those apic-related kernel panics ?


Boot the kernel and supply the "noapic" command-line option to it.

3) What's the general status on the macbook support ? Is everything working
> nicely ?


I don't know of MacBooks but for my MacBook Pro every single piece of
hardware is working as expected. Even hibernation and suspend to RAM are
working.
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