Installation of freya alongside Mac OS using DVD stalls

Question

I'm trying to load elementary Freya to run alongside my Mac OS on two of my laptop Mac computers.

My two computers are :

1. MacBook (13-inch Late 2007) - Intel Core 2 Duo

2. MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009) - Intel Core 2 Duo

I'm using your installation page - https://elementary.io/docs/installation#download-elementary-os

and following the instruction for Mac OS.

Both my computers are Intel Core 2 Duo and therefore I understand that a bootable USB stick for Freya will not work. So, I have followed the route of downloading your iso for Freya and burning it to DVD.

I am successful in loading Freya to my older MacBook running Freya alongside the Mac OS section of the HD.

However, I am not able to load Freya to my younger MacBook Pro. In booting from the DVD, as mentioned above, I get the following message showing up against a black screen :

controller found [ 2.028751 ] ACPI PCC probe failed [ 2.247927 ] nouveau E[ PDISP ] [ 0000:02:00.0 ] 01:0006:0242: no bios dp data

and I'm left with a blinking hyphen and there seems no way forward. I have to force shutdown on the computer to come out of this position.

Can anyone help me please ?

Alastair

Answer 1

I have a Macbook 2006 and it only boots 32 bit version of any Ubuntu distro.

You might need to boot in 'nomodeset' or 'noapic'.

Follow this instructions, it might work.

https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/a/7163/5726

Answer 2

I don't know, but it sounds like it might be an error on the installation disk?

Anyway, you actually can install freya 0.3.2 on your MacBooks using a bootable USB stick. I did this on a MacBook 4.1 (13-inch early 2008 Intel Core 2 Duo), and it worked perfectly well. There shouldn't be any reason why this wouldn't work on your computer. That way you can also try a new download of the disk image, maybe yours got corrupted causing the error message.