Ubuntu 11.04 broke my MacBook Pro

[Martin]

Shawn Milochik <shawn <at> milochik.com> writes:

> 
> Al,
> 
> Thanks for the comments. I didn't do a dual-boot -- I let Ubuntu take 
> over the entire disk. I tried to resize the OS X partition first, but 
> the installer complained that it couldn't do it for HFS.
> 
> I understand the question-mark issue -- the problem is that the majority 
> of the time I get just a black screen, no power-on tone, and no apparent 
> activity -- it certainly seems like a hardware problem. If all I ever 
> got was the gray question-mark screen I'd assume it was just a hard 
> drive issue.
> 
> I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 several times with no incident on this machine.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 


Did it to me too. I was doing a dualboot and choosed to install it side-by-side 
with OSX. 

After the first reboot, impossible to boot. I have to hold down the power button 
then start it again for a cycle of 5 times then it will boot.