mac on linux stuck at waiting for quarts to be installed

You can perfectly install linux alongside OSX. If it were any other PC it'd be done already, but I'd hate to corrupt my current install because of something Apple did to complicate things. (Ideally I would pull the hard drive, pop it into a similar PC and run the install then put it back in the MacBook). After trying for hours to get OS X installed on a blank hard drive, I had to go to the Apple store for them to do it. I only ask because Apple does weird things to make seemingly simple processes like installing OS's nearly impossible for the every-user. I don't want to corrupt my Lion install but I have a huge hard drive and my little core2duo isn't powerful enough to virtualize anything substantial.Īnd if I were to go ahead with this, would the Linux GRUB take over like it usually does? (This is my desired outcome). How much truth is there to this? If I were to run the Mint iso, would I still have the option to install alongside Mac OS X? Would it just partition the drive like it normally does? As much as I'd rather run something newer than Lion, there are issues using Linux as my sole OS on this machine (primarily when going into standby/closing the laptop/battery life).

I've read that Linux can't be installed alongside Mac OS X due to conflicting filesystems or something. So I've probably installed Mint alongside Windows countless times, but recently I just got my hands on a 2006/2007 MacBook running OS X Lion.

Mac on linux stuck at waiting for quarts to be installed