Running MATE on a late 2009 MacBook?

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64-bit Ubuntu MATE images for 32-bit EFI Macintosh Computers

For those of us with older Intel based Mac computers you might have come across the fact that the 64bit ISOs will not boot on these machines leaving you stuck at a black screen that you can't select boot 1 or 2. I have made the following ISOs for Ubuntu MATE 64bit that will boot and install without this issue. The machines this should work on are: iMac 5,1 – iMac 5,2 – iMac 6,1 Macbook 2,1 MacBook Pro 2,1 – MacBook Pro 2,2 Mac Pro 1,1 (only one I can test) If you're interested in how I did…