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From: Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: marcec@×××.de
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:24:51
Message-Id: 20130820232436.33f349c0@dartworks.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook by Marc Joliet
1 Re , Marc Joliet said:
2 > Now since I am productive with it, I wanted to install Gentoo on it
3 > but have thus far failed. So here are my overall goals:
4 >
5 > - install Gentoo
6 > - ideally ditch OS X
7 > - boot using EFI instead of in BIOS compatibility mode (e.g., I read
8 > that this
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10 I had Gentoo on a Macbook before. I used rEFInd to do it, but recent
11 kernels with proper EFI configuration should also work. But no
12 guarantees...
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14 Also, it's not enough to just say "MacBook". There are several
15 sub-models of that with different chipsets, GPU, etc. I had it working
16 with Intel chipset and even ran compiz on it.
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de>