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#Install an emulator on my intel based mac windows#
Windows to boot in EFI mode on Macs, with some progress and considerable Note: Enthusiasts have been working to get Some CaveatsĪlthough my opinion is that Intel-based Macs are best booted using EFIĪnd a GPT with a protective MBR rather than a hybrid MBR, there areĭrawbacks to doing it this way. This can be a good solution in some cases, but it doesn't give Linux directĪccess to the hardware and you'll lose some speed. An alternative to all of this is to run Ubuntu in a virtual Rid your computer of the dangerous hybrid MBR, you'll need to jump through Ironically, these boot only in BIOS mode! Therefore, to (although I suspect they might with the help of rEFIt or rEFInd). These discs reportedly do not boot on Macs
#Install an emulator on my intel based mac Pc#
I lack the hardware to do so!) The normal 64-bit discs can boot on PCs inĮither BIOS mode or (if the PC supports it) UEFI mode (UEFI being,Įssentially, EFI 2. Works on some later versions, but I haven't tested this claim-indeed,
#Install an emulator on my intel based mac mac#
The trouble is that Ubuntu doesn't support installing to a Mac in EFI Should pay attention to the caveats presented in the next section. Iīelieve the instructions on this page will work for them, although you Therefore, I can't speak to issues that are specific to 64-bit Macs. Note: My own Mac Mini is an early 32-bit model. Possible-and it is, if you dual-boot OS X and Linux but not Think I've heard of every possible problem with hybrid MBRs, I stumbleĪcross a new one. Partition is which, and become damaged in frustrating ways. In short, they can get out of sync, cause confusion about which See my hybrid MBR Web pageįor a technical description of what they are and what can go wrong with To Ubuntu installations on Macs with hybrid MBRs, and more problems with Hybrid MBRs, in particular, are aīad Idea (with a capital B and a capital I). Ubuntu can use the BIOS emulation and hybrid MBR that enable Windows toīoot on Macs, but it doesn't need to! If you don't use theseįeatures, you won't see their problems.

Thus, you can't use BIOS emulation mode withĪ conventional GPT disk unless you plan to use a bootable optical disc to Is present on the hard disk or when a BIOS-bootable optical disk is Partition table that the popular libparted-based partitioning toolsĪs far as I can tell, BIOS emulation mode only works when a hybrid MBR Hybrid MBR, but depending on your partition layout, it can create a Installer often gets it wrong it tries to be helpful by creating a Is that hybrid MBRs frequently cause problems. Which a GPT data structure known as the protective MBR isĪltered to make the disk look like an MBR disk to Windows. Therefore, Apple uses an ugly and dangerous GPT disks on BIOS-based computers (which it thinks a Mac is thanks toĪpple's BIOS emulation). Table (GPT) rather than the more common Master Boot

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#Install an emulator on my intel based mac free#
This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux EFI-Booting Ubuntu on a Mac EFI-Booting Ubuntu on a Mac by Rod Smith, written: 1/2011 Last Web page update: (last major update: )
