No mac version of ISO

[David Gomes]

I don't have much information but I got reports of elementary OS not booting on MacBook Pros, while Ubuntu 12.04 +mac releases do work.

[Shiz (shiz)]

The problem is that Apple's EFI implementation is not conformant to standard UEFI, which is how you'd boot the image. The only thing Ubuntu's +mac releases do is removing the EFI binaries so that the system will switch to BIOS emulation mode.

I'll try using rEFInd to boot it.

[Shiz (shiz)]

I should add that by using the standard UEFI boot binaries it does boot to the Linux kernel and starts initialization, but it hangs at the boot splash.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Documentation on EFI-booting Ubuntu on Mac non-standard EFI implementation can be found at http://www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi/
It's written by the author if rEFInd, so it's probably trustworthy.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Documentation describes a tedious manual process, so if we don't want to invest in supporting the fruity non-standard EFI (and for Luna we definitely don't), we'll have to follow in Ubuntu's steps and use EFI-less 64-bit images for Mac.

This will require some kind of platform detection in the website.

[Linus Bobcat (biobunny-exe)]

Fedora seems to be really Mac (EFI) friendly with Intel Macs from as far back as 2006, so if full Mac EFI support would ever be implemented, that would be a place to start. I've had a bit of experience with getting Ubuntu/elementary on old Intel Macs in full EFI mode which was really annoying but I found this to be best of help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting .

Having true Mac support requires a secondary partition before the Main Ext4 partition in HFS+ format (non-journalled) that contains a weird folder structure with some Mac specific files as well as GRUB-EFI in order for elementaryOS to be bootable from (Mac) OS X.

[Albert (optimisme)]

Don't know if this helps but I used:

https://github.com/SevenBits/Mac-Linux-USB-Loader

With Luna and it works fine.

I don't know the differences but I think it is just the "EFI loader" for mac.

[Albert (optimisme)]

By the way, to compile the application with Xcode, it is necessary to:

- Open the project and select it
- Navigate to: Build settings > Code signing > Code signing identity

And set it to:

- Don't code sign

And finally run it.

I don't know if I can attach a compiled version here,

[DaElsta (daelsta)]

it boots fine on my macbook 9,2...usb stick created with unetbootin and syslinux...more infos here: http://tech.anoj.net/2013/01/fixing-unetbootin-on-mac-os-x-to-create.html

you have to set up a boot/efi partition manually while installing. it won't boot afterwards so you have to use boot-repair and choose the separate boot-efi partition in boot-repair's advanced grub options.

[Dyson Simmons (dysonsimmons)]

Works fine for me on MacBook Pro 6,2 using rEFInd, but I guess perhaps the bug is relating to Elementary OS booting standalone without something like rEFInd.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

This is no longer necessary to install elementary/Ubuntu on a Mac