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You will then see the bootloader screen with some options press “e” to temporarily edit the boot configuration and add the nomodeset argument to the line which starts with linux.

If you are using the DVD version you will be able to choose whether to boot the system in “Windows” mode or EFI mode. So, to get started with the installation first burn the Gentoo CD/DVD image which you can download here, then insert the CD/DVD in the optical drive and turn the MBP on while holding the Alt key, so you can chose to boot the system from the installation media.

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In my case, I have chosen to install Gentoo in BIOS mode on both my MBPs, because when the system boots in BIOS mode the integrated Intel graphics card is automatically disabled, forcing you to use the discrete ATI or nVidia card instead if you want to avoid possible issues which may arise when having both the integrated card and the discrete card enabled, I recommend you also install the system in BIOS mode it’s just easier.

So if you want to do an installation in EFI mode you will have to use the DVD. The difference is that the CD only boots in BIOS mode while the DVD can also boot in EFI mode.

you can use either the Gentoo CD or the DVD to install the system.

during the installation the network interface may not work automatically until you get everything sorted you can use theĬommand to find the correct name for your network interface, which as we’ll see later you will need to manually activate.

You need to replace /dev/disk0s1 with the correct name for your disk device which you can find with the diskutil list command

once you install the system, you may find that your MBP takes around 30 seconds before actually booting and it will seem as if it freezes on the white screen after the startup chime sound to fix this you will need to boot the system from an OSX/macOS installation media or use the Internet recovery, and lunch the following command from a terminal:īless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -legacy.

I found that you can do this by holding the touch-pad’s left button while the MBP is booting

while learning the installing process I had at times to force eject the installation CD/DVD during boot.the two MacBook Pros on which I have installed Gentoo are a mid-2010 and an early-2011, so they are not very recent you might find you have to tweak the installation process a little if you own a more recent MBP but most of the process will be the same.

Install new hard drive macbook pro update#

Here I will just describe the steps necessary to get a system up and running quickly, and will update the post each time I install Gentoo, if needed. I want to keep this as short as possible so I won’t go into the details for every command, which you can easily find yourself.

Install new hard drive macbook pro how to#

There are several guides on the Internet (especially the official Gentoo Handbook) which show how to do a typical Gentoo installation, but I thought I’d add here my own notes on how to do this specifically on a MacBook Pro with full disk encryption and LVM, so it can hopefully save some time vs reading several guides to achieve the same.

documentation is perhaps the best one I’ve seen so far for Linux distributions.

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Gentoo differs from other distros also in that it uses a rolling release system, so you can just install the system once and keep it frequently updated with the latest versions of everything, rather than having to perform a bigger upgrade in one go each time a new release is out you must update your system frequently though for this to work well.

With USE flags you can even customise features on a per package basis if you wish Instead with Gentoo you only install what you actually need and just the dependencies required for example if you use Gnome like me, you can configure the system so that it doesn’t install all the packages required for KDE and so on. It’s not like most other distros which install a lot of stuff and features that you may never use.

you really install only what you want/need.

Install new hard drive macbook pro software#

you can install binary packages but most software is compiled and thus it is optimised for your hardware, which means it does take longer when you install stuff but you usually get a faster system in return (“Gentoo” is the name of the fastest penguins on earth).Some of the reasons why I wanted to give Gentoo a try as my primary OS are: I must say that so far I am loving it and I don’t miss OSX/macOS at all since I found and got used to the alternative apps for Linux. IMO the installation isn’t as complicated and difficult as many think it is, so I eventually installed Gentoo on my two MacBook Pros as well as the desktop. I recently decided to switch from OSX to Linux and went with Gentoo, so this post describes how install Gentoo on MacBook Pro.