Now you can switch between your OS when pressing „ALT“ (on a windows keyboard) before starting the mac. That means we have to tell the EFI, to boot other OS as well.īoot your Mac Mini, download rEFIt from their website, open the. Also you should read the rEFIt documentation and all man pages of unknown commands.Īpple does not use a regular BIOS, but an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). Default: Using GRUB“ refers to the section of document 1 😉 Again: Read them first and my article before you start anything. More or less we work with the three following HOWTOSĪnd i will just refer to them as. – Boot Live CD and install Gentoo according to the manual.īut to add all the other features to the mac mini installation was not that simple. Now if you don’t need RAID, encryption and the logical volume manager, then its quite simple to install Gentoo. 1.) Howto install a regular Gentoo on a Mini Well, to install an unencrypted linux on the Mac Mini was easy, but i wanted to install an RAID 1 with DM-CRYPT and LVM2 on the 500gb disks. Italic is a line you add to a config file # italic is a command line you enter in a terminal
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But please READ ALL THE MENTIONED DOCS first, before you start! How to read the following text: So if you want to follow my guide, you should already be experienced with linux. It turned out to be a bit tricky (in fact i wasted 5 days). This is a how to install Gentoo on a brand new Apple Mac Mini Server 2,1.
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