Now that you know how to install Linux on your Mac, check out our guide on how to install Linux on a Windows 10 computer. After installing the OS and exploring it, make sure that your applications are working properly. You are much safer using a VM or installing other operating systems to an external drive. Restart your Mac and hold down the Option key while it does.
So many people end up destroying both macOS and the other operating systems when resizing partitions and installing/uninstalling the other operating systems. Even Ubuntu 19.10 by default only includes the v5.3 kernel although it is possible to upgrade to the v5.5 kernel after Ubuntu is installed (or it will soon be possible to get v5.5).Īt this time if you want to use Linux on this laptop you will need to use a VM.įYI, before you try to install any other OS on the same drive as macOS make sure to have good verified working backups of macOS. Here is the full guide in 2 ways to boot from USB drive to reinstall Mac and install extra Windows 10, Linux, Ubuntu, etc., on a Mac computer. The above command is actually 3 commands in 1.
For this article I used an iMac 6.1 from late 2006. Can you reinstall Mac OS from USB Yes, of course. To do that, boot in macOS, open up your preferred terminal emulator and run cd Desktop/ & mkdir boot & sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 boot. There are many types of Apple Mac systems available. For this reason someone may want to install Linux on a Mac.
Then reboot and install linux mint normally.
The only thing you should do is start 32bit linux mint live CD and from the installation manager to delete all partitions you have on your macbook and create a new partition to install linux. IIRC the v5.5 kernel will support the Keyboard & Trackpads on MBPro 2016-2017 (and probably 2018+). Many people may like the look and feel of Linux over other Desktop Operating Systems (OS). I have a Macbook 2006 running linux mint 17. I've heard someone is working on T2 chip support, but I don't believe it will be anytime soon.īesides the T2 chip issue the default Linux kernel in most distributions do not have the necessary drivers to be able to use the Keyboard or Trackpad since those items are no longer considered USB devices. You cannot currently install Linux onto bare metal on any 2018+ Mac which uses a T2 chip since the Linux kernel doesn't yet contain the necessary drivers to communicate with the T2 chip and hence the SSD.