There must be some bugs in this new vesion 18.04-1 and I pass my experience because many may have tried to install a much better OS on these Apple products the company wants us to throw away.
When I rebooted I could connect to update and dist-upgrade + Install all the other apps as I liked to choose. I selected the minimal, with no downloads while installing. That is the only way it proceeded to install. I found out it was a NO NO.īy luck or chance after 5-6 times, I decide to selected ''English Canadian'',''Canadian Multilingual'' and regional ''Canadian French''. I had to restart the whole process from the beginning. In all previous installations since Ubuntu 6.XX (over 10 years or so) I always seleced English US as the languageĪnd things would roll on to install. After reselecting over 20 times I decided to keep Toronto and go on. but that never stayed selected and it always moved to Toronto, On. The first pitfall I had to face was at the time of selecting the city/country. Don't let off the ''alt-option'' until you see the new choice showing ''windows'' and the ''yellow usb drive''. Restart pressing ''Alt-option'' key + power on switch. I got get rid of refind, insert the DVD + the usb flash drive all at same time. I tried pressing the ''alt-option'' key - not much luck it would stop after starting to read the 18.04.iso DVD, then engaged in a reject. On the MAc BOOk Pro mid-2009 I tried the DVD approach and pressing C key - No success it is always rejeted. I have to say It is becoming tedious or I am getting older.įirst let us be clear, The ''refind'' approach did not work before and not this time again for me on this Mac Book Pro and not on a more recent Mac Boo Pro with intel i5! and not with my older big MacBook Pro 2008 with 2 Zeon cpu totalling 4 cores.
My recipe is if you DO NOT GIVE UP AND ARE VERY PERSISTENT. Note: Mac Pro (Early 2008) does not have an SMC_RST switch, refer to the reset procedure steps in the previous section.My recent experience installing ubuntu 18.04 on same MacBook Pro mid 2009 ( MBP 5.5 ) that had ubuntu 14.04 and for THOSE WHO HAPPENS TO HAVE A BEAUTIFULL USELESS, WOTHLESS MacBook Pro that sits around doing nothing because Mountain Lion is overpass not suppoorted and dead! Use a non-metallic, non-conductive object, such as a wooden pencil. Press the SMC_RST switch that is located slightly below and to the right of the row of diagnostic LEDs. Open and remove the metallic outer door.ģ. Press the power button to start up your computer.Īnother way to reset the SMC on a Mac Pro computer is:Ģ. Then reconnect your keyboard and mouse to the computer.ĥ. Plug the power cord back in, making sure the power button is not being pressed at the time. Unplug all cables from the computer, including the power cord and any display cables.Ĥ. From the Apple menu, choose Shut Down (or if the computer is not responding, hold the power button until it turns off).Ģ. I haven't changed anything physical in the configuration: all memory, PCI cards, disk drives and peripherals have been installed for ages: memory and disks since I bought the machine 2.5 years ago, Apple graphics card since January.ġ. I've tried unplugging the power and reseating the RAM and drives didn't fix the problem.
The patterns described in the user manual all have short flashes followed by a longer off period and I'm getting continuous short flashes. The pattern is not one of those described in the User Manual or in online forums: it simply flashes quickly until I kill the power. When I tried to wake it up this afternoon, the status light started flashing frequently. I used it normally this morning, then put it to sleep (not turned off). Worked like a charm never a problem in the 2.5+ years I've owned it. Maybe someone has insight on this I can't find anything in my user manual or online.Įarly 2008 Mac Pro running 10.6.7.