I’ve been trying to install elementary on my mid 2010 17" mbp. I’ve created a few different flash drives using both Etcher and DD. I’ve even verified the ISO hash. No matter what media I use I wind up here after selecting the bootable usb. Google has not been helpful in figuring this out. Anyone else seen this?

  • yuman@programming.dev
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    3 days ago
    • I’d strongly advise you to stay clear of elementaryOS, at least as a first step. after you figure things out with a more vanilla flavor, feel free to revisit it. there’s enough challenges with taming that hardware with vanilla flavors, you don’t need additional ones
    • these aren’t important messages, if you want to look at what’s happening, press “e” on the GRUB menu and remove quiet from the switches edit: those are EFI messages, that’s not linux stuff. make sure your USB drive is GPT formatted and after you’ve flashed it verify there’s an efi folder on it. reboot, press and hold Alt until the menu shows.
    • you’re booting with Nvidia graphics. those are abject horror in the best of cases, and yours (GT330M) is beyond saving. you should disable it as you’ll get nothing but grief and run it on Intel HD graphics only, here’s a primer.