I’ve a 2006/2007 Mac Professional 1,1 on which I wish to set up Linux Mint.
As I perceive it, the primary roadblock to doing so is the truth that the 1,1 has a 32-bit EFI and the Linux distributions now not embrace Mac-compatible bootable ISOs.
Analysis revealed Matt Gadient’s Linux DVD Photographs web page (https://mattgadient.com/linux-dvd-images-and-how-to-for-32-bit-efi-macs-late-2006-models/). There he offers quite a few pre-modded ISOs for varied Linux distributions and a program for modifying different ISOs.
I’ve tried a few his pre-modded photographs and modified a pair others. None of them labored.
Particularly, the Mac acknowledges the DVD as bootable media when booting with the Choice key held down, however will not truly boot from the DVD once I choose it. It accesses it for a couple of moments after which ejects it and boots from the onerous drive with Mac OS on it.
Further analysis has indicated that there’s a limitation with this method as nicely in that this leads to an set up that at all times does a BIOS boot, not EFI and, in response to some posts, that disables issues like fan management.
So, How do I set up Linux Mint with EFI booting on a Mac Professional 1,1?
{Hardware}:
- Mac Professional 1,1
- Twin-core Xeon at 2.66 GHz (2 processors, 4 cores)
- 4MB L2 cache
- 16GB RAM