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A compare with the original ISO file found differences. When I finished installing, the content of the USB flash drive had changed. I chose to not use the entire disk without a LVM group.

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I chose to update to the new installer.

When installing Ubuntu Server, I made the following selections. This basically does the same thing as the dd command used above. Next, I tried using the Startup Disk Creator that comes with kubuntu. I should also point out that this version of Ubuntu server boots to a command line interface (CLI). I have not tried fix the Mac to boot Ubuntu server as the default operating system. A present, the Mac Startup Manger is needed to boot Ubuntu server on the 2007 iMac. I was able to boot and installed an Ubuntu server. This was detected as EFI bootable by the Mac Startup Manager on the 2007 iMac. I used the same method to transfer the ubuntu-20.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso file to a flash drive.

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I was able to install Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS on the virtual machine. I state this because the flash drive can EFI boot in a VirtualBox virtual machine on the 2013 iMac running Catalina. Neither Mac Starup Manger could detect a EFI boot file on the flash drive, even though such files do exist on the flash drive. This is expected, since iMacs could not BIOS boot from flash drives until at least after the 2011 model year. The same flash was not detected by the Mac Startup Manager on a 2007 iMac. While I was able to boot, I choose not to install. I found the USB flash drive created using the mini.iso file was BIOS bootable by the Startup Manager on a 2013 iMac. Sudo dd if=~/Downloads/mini.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M Here, the identifier for the flash drive was sdc. The same can be accomplished with Linux by entering the commands given below. Sudo dd if=~/Downloads/mini.iso of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m An example of the commands is given below. The identifier for the flash drive was disk2. So, what appears on the flash drive is exactly what exists in the file. I transferred an ISO file to a USB flash drive by writing the file directly to the flash drive. The short answer is the mini.iso is bootable, just not bootable from a USB flash drive on a Mac of your vintage. Installing Linux on 2009 iMac, black screen after bootloader Is the error that I receive and I have tried editing the GRUB settings to include 'nomodeset' as suggested on forums such as this one:Į.g. The standard Ubuntu ISO can't be installed due to a GPU issue:

An earlier attempt to install Ubuntu Server crashed so when I boot the machine it goes to blank screen with just only '_'. Startup manager is not recognising the bootable USB that has been loaded with the Ubuntu Server Netboot ISO, though it is recognising a USB that has been loaded with the standard Ubuntu USB - does anyone know why this might be? I am using the same program to create both bootable USBs and I have tried different USB ports.įor context there isn't a functioning OS on this machine. I am trying to turn an iMac mid 2010 21.5' into a home server by installing Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS on it. Apologies if this question is inappropriate for this forum I am not sure whether I should be on the Apple or Ubuntu StackExchange.

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