Alan Hecht aghecht

Installing linux (Debian) on a 2011 Intel mac mini

Apple have long stopped supporting the mid-2011 mac mini I had sitting in the living room, so rather than contribute to the e-waste problem I decided to stick linux on it. The general consensus seems to be that you should keep macOS bootable to make it easier to deal with any firmware issues down the line, so I wanted to set it up to dual boot. The documentation I was able to find on how to do this seemed scattered or out of date.

There are a number of little wrinkles to this process:

macOS quite reasonably assumes it'll be the only thing running on the machine; you need to install a boot manager to let you choose between macOS, linux, or whatever else. I went with rEFInd.
Something seems a bit off with the default video setup, such that when I first booted into Debian the screen went blank immediately after enabling kernel modesetting.
The mac mini wifi uses a Broadcom chipset with non-free drivers which you have to download separately. I s

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