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   ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ (captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Sep-2025 14:07:42 JST ☠ Captain Arcee ☠

   has anyone successfully installed a Linux distro on a Macbook Pro 2010 (macbook 7,1)? I want to triple boot Snow Leopard, Windows XP, and a linux distro (preferably Debian-based) but I'm having issues with installation, either generic/unknown errors or GRUB won't install. I'm new to manual partitioning, so maybe I'm missing something past the usual ext4 partition and the swap partition.

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     ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ (captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Sep-2025 14:31:29 JST ☠ Captain Arcee ☠

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     • vga256

     @vga256 this looks promising upon first glance. It is a bit late for me to work more on this today but I'll let you know if it ends up working for me. Thank you very much!

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     vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Sep-2025 14:31:31 JST vga256

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     @captainarcee iirc, the underlying issue with these is the nonstandard/incomplete EFI spec used on these older MBPs. that might be part of the problem you're facing with grub.

     i had success running mac/win/linux on my 2010 machines using http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

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     ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ (captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com)'s status on Thursday, 04-Sep-2025 09:22:56 JST ☠ Captain Arcee ☠

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     • vga256

     @vga256 I was able to get this to install earlier today but I'm still having issues getting any distro to live boot to desktop.