I have a Mac Min A1176 and tried following: 1) when booting off 'ubuntu-14.04.5-server-amd64+mac.iso' on a CD (hoping to so upgrade to 16.04 and 18.04), I get the message: ' This kernel requires a x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU.
#INSTALL LINUX ON MAC MINI 2006 INSTALL#
Lots of data you can find, but no solution. Until now, I only was able to install a 32 bit Ubuntu 16.04 but I'd like to 'upgrade' to a 64 bit base. I currently use it on my machine, and everything works correctly. You will have a dual boot Linux-MacOS, which will allow you to use the both operating systems. * Lots of people come across this when attempting to install Win7 on there. Suse Linux on a Mac Mini 2011 <- It is possible This tutorial will describe precisely and step by step what you need to do to install suse Linux on an apple Mac mini 2011. * I found a bug report on, I believe it was Fedora's bugzilla, where developers basically dismissed the issue as Apple being a bad person. * Google results lead me to find a rant by Linus on Apple's ever-changing EFI specs, which was interesting but didn't contain any solution This guide applies to the MacBook 2,1 through 4,1 and c. * The machine boots and installs Leopard with no problem, meaning there's no hd or other weird issue. In this video, were going to install Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) on an unsupported Core 2 Duo MacBook. I've tried various CentOS 6.x install images including the most promising-seeming, one called CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall-EFI.iso, but that led to the same issue.
The problem appears to be due to the fact that Apple has played around with the EFI spec and this particular machine is a 32-bit EFI on a 64-bit machine (it's an Intel machine, btw). There doesn't seem to be a solution that I could find, though. This page primarily describes a technique for installing Debian on these earlier PowerPC G4 based systems I have now added a short guide to installing Ubuntu on the newer Intel based systems.
#INSTALL LINUX ON MAC MINI 2006 HOW TO#
In this feature we look at how to install Linux on a Mac - including how to completely replace. Update (2006) The first generation of Mac Mini systems used PowerPC G4 processors.
The keyboard is disabled, the caps lock key doesn't flash when hit. Linux is a powerful operating system beloved by coders and capable of breathing life into old Macs. In short, if you pop in a CentOS install DVD, you get a consolish black screen with big font that looks like it's bleeding off the screen: I dropped in a brand new SSD for that purpose. I'm very eager to turn this old thing into a little low-powered Linux server. Now it must not be rocket science to get this to happen.
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