The first thing to try is usually a reinstall using manual partitioning, making sure the drive is partitioned as MBR (if the installer is attempting a /boot/efi partition, it’s not a good sign). It sounds like that may be the case here. Some disto installers will partition the hard drive as GPT/EFI even if the installer itself was booted MBR/BIOS. I overwrote it with the SangomaOS which DIDN’T install.
Unfortunately, these mac-specific images seem to have fallen by the wayside as of late.”īut anyway - I’ve moved on from that successful install. “Eventually I came across ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64+mac.iso which actually did boot and install. You sound angry about this, so not sure if your question was rhetorical (and sorry if I’ve misread your tone, text is notorious for this!). Why didn’t you do this with 16.04 or 18.04
