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Installing Linux on 64-bit Mac that has the old 32-bit EFI firmware

Mon, 2016/08/15 - 4:26pm

If you have and older Mac that has a 64-bit processor but the 32-bit 1,1 or 2,1 EFI firmware (eg. a 2009 Mac Mini Core 2 Duo) and you want to install a recent 64-bit version of Linux on it, the 32-bit EFI firmware will leave you stuck at a prompt like this:


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with an unresponsive keyboard and no way to proceed.


Automated Snapshots on Mac OS X Lion Server

Fri, 2012/07/27 - 10:42am

The problem: creating "TimeMachine-like" snapshots of changed files to a NAS device that is not TimeMachine-compatible.

Caveats with this solution: file permissions will not be maintained in the backup copies.

Overview: uses find and rsync in a shell script called with a launchd daemon.


Screen Resultions Higher than 1024x768 for Linux under Parallels 4

Tue, 2010/01/19 - 1:26pm

By default Parallels allocates a very small amount of video memory for Linux installs. Simply increase the amount of available video memory to allow for the largest desired resolution. With the Parallels Tools installed you will now be able to scale the window to resolutions higher than 1024x768.


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