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Yes, latest win 7 has EFI capability.bootmgr.efi!


A SW that give you WIndows PE(Preinstall Enviroment) a must for loading Windows

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Forgive me if I am 'off the wall' on this one:
I have been trying to boot Active@Boot Disk from a usb on my mac. SInce grub2 using the bootx64.efi and some grub.cfg menuentry I have been...

This is just to summarize the do's to get a "persistent' on usb for mac.
It will work on iMac C2D 2.4 early 2008, Mbp 2.2 C2G as well as Mbp uni C2D 2.8 early 2009 editions.
No sound and reboot in...

Manage to get the wireless working using this thread.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=896713
Giving up on sound and reboot all info out there broke the "persistent".

the other part

root@ubuntu:~# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-15-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 9 10:48:52 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu:~#
Thanks again

This is my out put after running the instructionspoted without any error message. This is on my presitent not regular ubuntu. Appreciate if you can look at it. i re nano same xorg.conf everytime from...

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You were absolutely on target with the nano /etc/X11. The only 2 thing I did more was to
1) rm -rf xorg.conf.*.
2) nano the xorg.conf.fail safe as well with your mighty entry.
Voila`...

I guess the 2 graphic cards means double trouble for the MBP 5,x edition. Any idea on xorg.conf entry to accommodate both cards? :confused:

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Absolutely. I gedit xorg.conf, even put a .failsafe, did muti xsever-xorg thingy, hi lite fbdev every where even a root level ,prompt b/f resume normal boot.
WIth the Imac the persistent ...

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No go onwardbeyound the 'continue normal boot or else window' prompt,
I have tried:
dpkg repair, xotg-xservrethingy and root with network to up date all possible nvidia and install...

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Just used 9.04amd installed in vmw on my imac 2008 to make usb disk image. Used bootx86.efi and grub.cfg with these entry;

## grub.cfg pxw 20090916

menuviewer="text"

timeout=20...

Just install the pre=released 9.10 karmic onto vmware 2.05.
1)fusion quit a few times.
2) have to manual fsck on 1st restart.
3) restart to black screen after vmware tool. Solved with software...

Hello pxwpxw
Thanks for all your posting. Cannot read them all since I just got back on to linux aftre hearing about the grub.efi.
Two reports:
These are tested on my MBP 5,1 (C2D 2.8 2009)
Using...

Ryan Cloke has come up with the initrd.gz edit for persisitence !

http://www.ryancloke.com/ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-live-usb-how-to/

Thank you ryan.

Just reconfig my airport base station specifically with WAP2 AES/cCm. And then signed selecting the AES-- instead of AUTO (default) option. Now I have encrypted wifi.

Well I am sorry for bothering you with OLD NEWS. If any consolation I used a "closed network setting" for some ? measure of of security.

Thanks for the advise. I did this to make the changes permanent.

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN XORG INFO
# Provides: xorg.onf
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: S
# Default-Stop:
#...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=816161

Just want to let you folks know that penryn mbp can have wifi access. Please look at this post.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=816161

Good news cyber--. It actually is working fine in an none encrypted network. Now I have Wifi for my penryn MBP.

Some anecdotal mistakes to avoid are:

1) Do not use the Dell's Driver. It will...

Thank you cyber... for sticking through thick and thin.

Using this great instruction

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookPro/Penryn?highlight=(macbook)|(pro)

wireless on my mbp3 has recognized wlan0 as well as shown activities. However it is still not...

That was the first thing I did to enable scrolling. My problem is the editting is ?archived by the ?Xserver like so

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo -s
root@ubuntu:~# cd /etc/X11
root@ubuntu:/etc/X11# ls...

No taker?

Here is the sit:

I have a partition on my mBP3 as an ubuntu persistence and is doing well except for the changes made in xorg.conf to enable scrolling for my BT mouse. Every time I reboot...