Before I spend a lot of time, is there any help here for me? Just trying to get either MX Fluxbox or AntiX to install. Correctly.
Could you provide some more details on the iMac? What size are the drives? How well does macOS run on the iMac? Any error messages or log files you can provide? I’ve install Ubuntu 22.04 on a 2011 MacMini and had some troubles but was able to work through it.
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@cwest Firstly, Thank you for your response! That alone is a step further than some other forums I won’t mention here.
iMac: 1Tb HDD, 254Mb SSD
I haven’t run MacOS for about 2 years, But prior ran High Sierra 10.13.4 I believe. It ran ok, but not securely and at that time became problematic to run system apps etc. The machine itself is and has been a beast and since leaving the bad apple, I used Zoron, Mint Cinn, MX KDE plasma. I thought the KDE would help with ability to better recognize my also older perifiles ( Audio interface, external DVD writer/player- Internal Superdrive died out.) I also have used a Samsung T7 1Tb to keep my basically home folder stuff and a ton of media on, it’s almost full.
I believe I have cleared my internals now, and now running off a live usb of MX.
I can access logs and have had some errors to likely due to improper configuration.
I think its a fusion issue and need to make sure both drives are always mounted upon boot.
Which log files would best help? I will send a general “about this machine” for now. Thanks again!!!
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-29-amd64 [6.1.123-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht nosplash splasht video=1280x1024
Desktop: Fluxbox v: 1.3.7 info: tint2 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.6_fluxbox_x64
Libretto Jan 12 2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Apple product: iMac12,1 v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
type: 13 v: Mac-942B5BF58194151B serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-942B5BF58194151B serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple v: 87.0.0.0.0
date: 06/14/2019
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-2500S bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Sandy Bridge gen: core 2 level: v2
built: 2010-12 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB
L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1598 high: 1600 min/max: 1600/3700 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1596 2: 1600 3: 1596 4: 1600 bogomips: 21551
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: disabled; RSB
filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
arch: Gen-6 code: Sandybridge process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports: active: none empty: VGA-1
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0102 class-ID: 0380
Device-2: AMD Whistler [Radeon HD 6730M/6770M/7690M XT] vendor: Apple driver: radeon v: kernel
alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2 code: Evergreen process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, VGA-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6740 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2:3
chip-ID: 05ac:850b class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: Apple iMac built: 2010 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 103
gamma: 1.2 size: 475x267mm (18.7x10.51") diag: 545mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 640x480
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.1.0-29-amd64 LLVM 15.0.6)
direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series] vendor: Apple
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aa90 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-29-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:16b4 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme
driver: ath9k v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 168c:0030 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Apple Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR HCI type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.1.1:7
chip-ID: 05ac:8215 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 1.2 lmp-v: 2.1
sub-v: 21d0 hci-v: 2.1 rev: 206
Info: acl-mtu: 1021:5 sco-mtu: 64:1 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, audio, telephony
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.22 TiB used: 5.45 GiB (0.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST31000528AS size: 931.51 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: AP63
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Apple model: SSD TS256C size: 233.76 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0202 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide size: 28.67 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
ID-4: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide size: 57.3 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 1024 MiB used: 6.2 MiB (0.6%) priority: -2
file: /live/boot-dev/swap-file
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1198
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1892 libs: 907 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm pkgs: 0
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Info:
Processes: 267 Uptime: 6d 16h 57m wakeups: 32 Memory: 3.8 GiB used: 2.42 GiB (63.7%)
Init: SysVinit v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0
alt: 12 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
@CurlyStooge No worries. So is it safe to say you tried to install on the 1TB HDD? The output says that 5.45GiB (0.4%) is currently being used. I see nothing being stored for the 256GB SSD.
With these “fusion drives” on Macs did you “de-couple” the two drives before installation?
Here is a good walkthrough on how to do it - https://medium.com/@shrey3432/breaking-apples-fusion-drive-8ff8ded97396
Do you still have a macOS USB installer?