has anyone been able to accomplish the task of installing SuSE11 on a intel macbook as yet.
If so, how did you get it done, I cant seem to get it on mine, I tried ubuntu8 last night with success, however I did not like the brown & orange, so I removed.
I want SuSE 11 but I get error with grub: no such partitionâŚWTAT GIVESâŚ
please help>>>>>>>>>>>>
triple booting macbook. tiger, vista, suse11
rEFIt, (no boot camp) manual drive partition from terminal: sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 80G âLinuxâ âLinuxâ 20G âMS-DOS FAT32â âWindowsâ 30G* (*30G represents 197G remaining on my 300G HDD)
What are you using to control the boot loading?
Youâre not using BootCamp?
You know, if the colors are a problem you can change the theme, thatâs what Linux is all about. Or perhaps youâd like to try Kubuntu or Fedora or something with KDE 4 so it would look nicer for you.
Same problem as I???
OpensSuse 11 => MacBook rEFIt - openSUSE Forums
If yes, you can start to cry⌠Till now, any one gives any tipâŚ
Cheers
You are going to have to provide more information about how you were managing the boot before installing openSUSE. Also, the disk and partition layout.
All information that you need about this problem is here:
OpensSuse 11 => MacBook rEFIt - openSUSE Forums
Iâm having the same problem!
Cheers
I am using rEFIt⌠ubuntu installs just fine, but I would rather to use SUSe 11.
I also partition disk from within mac via âdiskutilâ resizeVolume 80G âLinuxâ âLinuxâ 25G âMS-DOS FAT32â âWindowsâ 30G
HDD is 300G
Iâm not familiar with rEFIt. I did look at the documentation. Since this is an EFI machine, my understanding is that you must use rEFIt to control the boot. And, the boot utility doesnât look very friendly. All I can offer is that I think you would need to install grub in the openSUSE root partitionâs boot sector, and then with rEFIt point to that, for openSUSE to boot. This must be how Vista is being booted, too - that is, with rEFIt pointing to the Vista partition to hand off the boot to.
Sorry, but your description of the disk layout didnât make sense to me. I donât know if this will even help, but if you want us to take a look, use fdisk to list the partition table and post that back.
Hi, yersterday I got my openSuse 11 finished, refit is works as it should be. (MacBook Pro 2.2)
Itâs a triple boot system OSX (10.5), Win XP (SP3) an openSUSE 11.
Instead of refeit you can press down the alt/option key at the time the macbook boots up and you get all bootable partitions listed.
I did nearly the same with diskutil, but I had to choose âMS-DOS Fat32â for the file system, because diskutil told me âLinuxâ wasnât a valid file system. This wasnât a problem, because at the installation procedure you can delete this partition again and create the right (ext3 for example) partition.
Be sure that the bootloader is installed onto the root partition und disable writing into MBR
If your SUSE install is finished (updates loaded), reinstall grub as described here
and boot into OSX. refit doesnât install the requiered ext2/2xt3 drivers by default, so may you you have to install refit again and select the advanced settings where you can choose which parts will be installed (Iâm on a german mac, so I canât tell you the right way while it will be different on your machine)
There open a terminal and type in:
$ cd /efi/refit
$ ./enable.sh
After that I was able to select the refit linux icon that bootet me into grub.
You can also add your Windows partition to grub
Donât worry, it has taken me too a bit longer to understand what is doing refit und you also have to reinstall refit (by â./enable.shâ)and grub after a kernel update (or everything else that forces yast to rewrite grub
so longâŚ
greetings Kump
Thanks for all the info. Iâm a total Mac noob, but am thinking about trying opensuse 11 on a Mac Book Pro. Please pardon my ignorance, but have some very basic questions:
- How do you share files between the Linux and the OS X partitions? Are the file systems read/write compatible?
- Are you able to run compiz and 3D acceleration from within Linux on the MacBook Pro?
Thanks for your feedback, and for the great forum.
Go for it. Mineâs working swimmingly.
Please pardon my ignorance, but have some very basic questions:
- How do you share files between the Linux and the OS X partitions?
The easiest way is to use a separate FAT partition for sharing files. I may be looking in the wrong spots, but I havenât yet found a way for OSx to read ext3.
Are the file systems read/write compatible?
Iâm pretty sure the Linux kernel can read HFS+ with the correct module. As far as OSx reading ext3, no clue.
- Are you able to run compiz and 3D acceleration from within Linux on the MacBook Pro?
Using the ânvidiaâ graphics module, yes. using the FOSS ânvâ module, no.
Hope that helps.
Thanks billywayne for your feddback!
This may be real dumb, but I thought rEFIT only allowed for 4 partitions: 1 for rEFIT(?), the 2nd one for Mac OS X, the 3rd for Linux and the 4th for swap. If thatâs the case, there would be no space for a FAT partition?
Itâs possible to use a swap file instead of a partition. Actually, this is the default behavior of both OSx and Windows. Thatâll free up a partition for your FATness.
i need a step by step instruction on how to get Suse11 going on my macbook version 2 intel::
OS X tiger , vista & suse 11âŚ
2gig ram
300g HD â>80 for Tiger 30 for Suse11 and the rest for vistaâŚ
ps this a macbook (not macbook pro)
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i get ubuntu 8.10 working everytime i try ,but suse11 no luckâŚ
thx