Converting an UEFI disk to a MBR disk

Randymanme · 11-30-2015, 12:51 AM

I've recently been gifted with a Macbook Pro A1286. My intentions are to wipe the disk and install Ubuntu. I've been googling this topic and have read a lot about and around it -- most of which are rather too technical and convoluted for me. I did, however, stumble upon some directions that seem a little bit too simple to true: ()please see screenshot)

Am I to understand that I can just use windows to convert the UEFI disk to a MBR disk, and then install Ubuntu without further ado?

syg00 · 11-30-2015, 01:38 AM

UEFI is microcode, not a disk (partitioning) scheme - that would be gpt.
What makes you think you need to convert from gpt to MBR ?.
What makes you think the Macbook will boot a MBR disk ?. It may (should), but Apple being Apple, it may not.

Linux has all the tools you need to do the conversion - gdisk for example. But you would need a real good reason to do so. Ubuntu installs fine on UEFI machines with gpt disk.

drew2x · 12-09-2015, 12:33 PM

This article got me up and running pretty quickly, you can sub in Ubuntu instead of Mint. I chose Ubuntu MATE 15.04 instead on my MacBook Air. This says "alongside." I formatted all except the EFI bootloader partition in Gparted.

http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/201...gside-osx.html