I have been fighting a battle to the death with it for months now and I am highly frustrated. I want to be able to dual boot Kali Linux on my 2006 MBP 2,2, and I am having all kinds of problems. What happens is, when I try and boot from Kali on a CD or USB stick, it just gives me this black screen that says Non system disk, press any key to continue. And then when I press any key to continue, it doesn't do anything, and I have to reboot. I tried using both rEFIt and rEFInd to solve the problem, but it did the same thing whether I used the built in boot manager or something else. Only it gave me a slightly different error - when I tried to boot from rEFIt it gave me a screen that looked like this:
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Select CD-ROM boot type:
And then it wouldn't let me type or do anything and I had to reboot. What the %$^$^%#$^ is up with that? I have no idea how to fix this, I have used up incredible amounts of my bandwidth Googling it, with no luck.
So that's problem number 0. Now problem number 1.....
Recently, my Mac has become infected with a virus. I am quite certain that I am indeed infected - my system has been pretty glitchy for a while, but then today everything pretty much stopped working. I mean literally everything - I wasn't able to copy paste, I wasn't able to keep applications open, 80 percent of my CPU was in use, there was a three second delay to do anything, there were these random glitches in the user interface, and it wouldn't even let me take a screenshot of the craziness.
I don't want to risk trying to get rid of the virus and then still have it linger, I just want to format my disk completely and install Linux, I am kind of sick of OSX honestly. I also want to reinstall the firmware, if that is possible, I don't want the virus surviving in my bootloader. The firmware is EFI in my case, I have an Intel Mac.
So what I am about to say is probably going to sound incredibly dumb, but I just formatted my boot volume HFS+ in an effort to eradicate the virus. Did I just irreparably damage my system? I am still able to boot into OSX, thankfully, but that's not the point, is it? I need working firmware that will boot from a Kali Linux install disk so that I can reinstall the OS!!
As you can see, I am totally lost right now, I don't know what on earth I am doing, I am a total n00b at this. Any ideas on what to do?
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Select CD-ROM boot type:
And then it wouldn't let me type or do anything and I had to reboot. What the %$^$^%#$^ is up with that? I have no idea how to fix this, I have used up incredible amounts of my bandwidth Googling it, with no luck.
So that's problem number 0. Now problem number 1.....
Recently, my Mac has become infected with a virus. I am quite certain that I am indeed infected - my system has been pretty glitchy for a while, but then today everything pretty much stopped working. I mean literally everything - I wasn't able to copy paste, I wasn't able to keep applications open, 80 percent of my CPU was in use, there was a three second delay to do anything, there were these random glitches in the user interface, and it wouldn't even let me take a screenshot of the craziness.
I don't want to risk trying to get rid of the virus and then still have it linger, I just want to format my disk completely and install Linux, I am kind of sick of OSX honestly. I also want to reinstall the firmware, if that is possible, I don't want the virus surviving in my bootloader. The firmware is EFI in my case, I have an Intel Mac.
So what I am about to say is probably going to sound incredibly dumb, but I just formatted my boot volume HFS+ in an effort to eradicate the virus. Did I just irreparably damage my system? I am still able to boot into OSX, thankfully, but that's not the point, is it? I need working firmware that will boot from a Kali Linux install disk so that I can reinstall the OS!!
As you can see, I am totally lost right now, I don't know what on earth I am doing, I am a total n00b at this. Any ideas on what to do?