Comments on: OSX and Ubuntu- dual boot

By: satsuma

satsuma — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:18:28 +0000

How can I unistall Ubuntu from a dual boot with mac OSX tiger?
Thank you!

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:54:51 +0000

Can Ubuntu be installed on an external FireWire drive? So far, no luck so I’m thinking no.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:57:11 +0000

I have been dual booting my ibook g3 for some time now. (ubuntu 7.04 and mac osx 10.2.8). Works fine.

The yaboot loader can be reinitialised by pressing the command + option + P + R keys on starting the machine. This resets and gives you the option of which partition to boot up from. the next time you will have the normal options when bootin up.

Good luck

By: Vijay

Vijay — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:52:10 +0000

I have been dual booting my ibook g3 for some time now. (ubuntu 7.04 and mac osx 10.2.8). Works fine.

The yaboot loader can be reinitialised by pressing the command + option + P + R keys on starting the machine. This resets and gives you the option when the screen lights up.

Good luck

By: John

John — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:30:50 +0000

I’m having similar problems with tiger and feisty on a g4 iBook.

Some notes:
1. When I created the three partitions, the ubuntu partition I used unix files system

2. I delete the ubuntu partition as in step 5, then I go back and when I choose to use the largest free partition size is says it failed to partition because the selected space was too probably too small (In this case it was 10 gigs, so I don’t think it would be too small).

It seems something may have changed with the 7.04 partitioner perhaps?

Any ideas?

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:17:40 +0000

Just tried to install Ubuntu on a partition on my iMac G5.
Same thing as JK is getting.
Installer completed OK, it says it installed Yaboot. I can boot from the CD by holding the c key, but on restart it just goes directly into OS X.

Also have had no success in getting it to recognize my wireless keyboard.

By: JK

JK — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:41:59 +0000

I’m having some trouble with getting OS X Tiger and Kubuntu Feisty Fawn dual bootting on my MacBook. I followed the instructions up to point five. I’m not sure what you mean by deleting the Ubuntu partition. I figured it meant chosing the manual partition option, and deleting the partition, but I couldn’t find a way to save the changes so I could go back to the previous screen. Instead I proceeded the manual way and everything seemed to go just fine. However, when I restarted my system, it booted straight into OS X. I can’t figure out how to boot into Kubuntu. Disk utility shows the third partition as greyed out and doesn’t show any information about it. Using the live CD, I can see the partition, and it says that “,0 GB of the partition is used, so the installation seems to have gone just fine. So, how can I boot into Kubunu instead of OS X?

By: Pauly

Pauly — Sun, 06 May 2007 03:27:14 +0000

does the linux have to be installed on the same drive as osx or can it be on a seperate drive?

By: Rory McCann

Rory McCann — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:33:19 +0000

Poochy,

You can find the user id easily with the terminal. just enter the command ‘id’, and you’ll get something like this:
uid=1000(rory) gid=1000(rory) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),111(scanner),114(admin),116(fuse),1000(rory)

The ‘uid’ is the user id, it tells you that the user ‘rory’ has the user id 1000. The gid is the group id, and it lists all the groups (and the corresponding group id) for each group that the user ‘rory’ is in.

This is on Linux, but it should be similar for OSX.

By: Poochy

Poochy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:54:17 +0000

Hi.
Found this post when looking for solutions in sharing drives. Can someone please teach me how to find the UserID? My machine is a PowetBook G4 dual-booting Ubuntu 6.10 and Mac OSX Panther.
Thanks.