• Getting GNU/Linux to reboot properly on unibody Macbook from late 2009 (Macbook 6,1)

    To get a GNU/Linux to reboot properly and not hang in the final step, you need to pass another parameter to the kernel. You need to pass reboot=pci to Linux.

    Currently, Debian and Debian-derivatives such as Ubuntu tend to use Grub2 as the bootloader, by default. You need to:

    • edit the /etc/default/grub configuration file, as root, and using your favorite editor
    • find line that looks similar to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”"
    • if it contained anything inside quotes, don’t delete those commands!
    • into the quotes, add reboot=pci but do not delete existing text
    • back in command line, run update-grub as root user

    It should now work flawlessly!

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