Just as an additional data point, I can confirm that, on a 2008 core2 duo macbook pro, the amd64+mac images work, the amd64 ones don't and an xubuntu 14.04 amd64 image fixed by the above c program works too.
jf
Just as an additional data point, I can confirm that, on a 2008 core2 duo macbook pro, the amd64+mac images work, the amd64 ones don't and an xubuntu 14.04 amd64 image fixed by the above c program works too.
jf