{"id":1706,"date":"2026-05-27T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:22:21","slug":"install-linux-mint-in-2006-imac-a1207-or-a1208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/index.php\/install-linux-mint-in-2006-imac-a1207-or-a1208\/","title":{"rendered":"install linux mint in 2006 imac a1207 or a1208"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

these have a 32 bit efi, but a 64 bit cpu, so typical linux distros get confused, additionally, the video card is a bit unsupported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

at the grub menu, select the “compatibility” option for mit, press “c” and send these commands:

insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod font
insmod gfxterm
set gfxmode=1680x1050
terminal_output gfxterm<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

then go back to the grub menu by pressing “esc” and add these to your kernel params<\/p>\n\n\n\n

nomodeset radeon.modeset=0<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

then presse “f10” to boot into the installer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

these have a 32 bit efi, but a 64 bit cpu, so typical linux distros get confused, additionally, the video card is a bit unsupported. at the grub menu, select the “compatibility” option for mit, press “c” and send these commands: insmod efi_gopinsmod efi_ugainsmod fontinsmod gfxtermset gfxmode=1680x1050terminal_output gfxterm then go back to the grub menu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}