Touchbar Macbook Pro and Trisquel 9
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I recently tried to install Trisquel 9 on my touchbar Macbook Pro and the installer will not boot. Also, aftwer installing Ubuntu and "Trisquelizing" (Trisquelize script) the system will not boot. How can I install Trisquel on this laptop and have it boot? Is it because of some BIOS incompatibility?
I do not know the specific instructions for Macbooks. The general ones are behind this link: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/starting-installable-live-system
The boot medium is not recognized whatsoever. On the same USB device ubuntu and other function well. I also have the same issue of the boot medium not being recognized with PureOS too. Does this have to do with UEFI at all? I dont know much about that.
The boot firmware on Mac is neither BIOS nor UEFI. However, it is certain kind of "UEFI" (Undefined Extensible Firmware Interface) which doesn't observe the UEFI standard.
If you can replace its boot firmware, flash coreboot on it. You can still use Tianocore as payload so it works like UEFI, but it's standardized.
I am so afraid of messing up a system flash such as coreboot. id have to look into this more and get informed.
"Touchbar MBP", what model would that be? If it's a pre-T2 chip model, Trisquel 9 should boot. With the T2 chip, one should disable the secure boot first in order to be able to boot other operating systems.
I have no problem booting Trisquel 9 on my Macbook Air 2015.
Basically, you need to do the following things on a Mac with T2. First enter the maintenance mode, then enable booting from other devices, and disable secure boot.
Even if you can do these, there are still more problems. We tried to install GNU/Linux on a 2017 Mac Book, but the keyboard, touchpad, and the internal NVMe SSD were unusable. To overcome this, you need a 4-port type-C dock and attach a keyboard, a mouse, a Live USB, and an external disk for system installation.
External disks work. Something like the Sandisk Extreme Pro would be almost as speedy as any internal disk.
lord... in my case I just installed Ubuntu Mate and am using only the trisquel repos going forward and removing non-free stuff as I find it. i dont think i want to use this laptop in such a frankensteined way -- using an external keyboard, disk, etc.
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