

In the File Menu, select Utilities > Disk Utility. Reboot your computer, holding down Command+R to enter Recovery Mode. Also see the ''Cross-mount file systems'' below. If you would like a shared partition between OS X and Debian, consider creating a partition now. See this table on deciding swap space size. You will shrink the OS X partition, so decide how much space you want to give your OS X and Debian partitions. To run Debian, you will want two partitions: one for the Debian OS, and one for swap space for Debian. Recovery HD: A 600 MB recovery partition that includes the OS X installer and basic utilities.OS X: an HFS+ partition that includes OS X and user space.EFI: a 200 MB partition at the beginning of the disk.
MAC OS UNABLE TO FIND DRIVER FOR THIS PLATFORM ACPI MAC OS X
This requires you to set up system with EFI bootloader.Ī clean install of Mac OS X will create three drive partitions: It is advisable to leave OS X installed, as the computer's firmware can only be updated from OS X. Post-install Debian configuration specific for ?MacBooks.

It's always good to start from a clean, backed-up and up-to-date install of OS X. You can find the version of a MacBook in the "About this Mac" menu in OSX, or dmidecode output from Linux. There are several different models with different internal hardwares. MacBook is a series of laptop PCs sold by Apple Inc. CPU frequency scaling in kernel (customization).CPU frequency scaling in kernel (basics).Mount Linux filesystems (ext3) under Mac OS X.Mount Mac OS X filesystems (HFS+) under Linux.
