<div><div dir="auto">Can it network boot Gordon? You’re welcome to bring it down to cr and use Xubuntu network installer.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:27 PM Gordon Dey <<a href="mailto:gordon.dey@happydeys.ca">gordon.dey@happydeys.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So as luck would have it, I find myself attempting to put ubuntu onto an<br>
empty iMac4,1 (early 2006, core duo--not '2').<br>
<br>
I can boot an external macbook install usb cd disk, but of course, the<br>
installer bails when it realizes the iMac isn't a macbook. Utilities<br>
work, and I can show hardware inventory. Internal cd no longer works.<br>
AlltThis tells me that I can boot from a usb cd if the magic is right,<br>
and that the iMac is complete and working.<br>
<br>
I have googled, created a number of CDRs with various incantations, 32b<br>
(because it seems that the efi boot programme on the 4,1 is 32b),<br>
including Matt Gadient's magic mac fix, even rEFInd on amd64. But<br>
nothing else boots.<br>
<br>
Any practical advice for an old iMac4,1?<br>
<br>
Gord<br>
<br>
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