Ubuntu was installed with pure EFI booting instead of Bootcamp because OSX was no longer used. Unlike the case of PPC-Mac, the installation was easily done.
But, the long-time whiteout screen appears before booting when turn on the power. According to here, this boot delay occurs when installed by Mac-EFI mode. Immediately, I tried to remove the boot delay by this instruction.
However, I couldn't run efibootmgr because "modprobe efivars" was never effected.
Next, I tried easyUEFI on bootable windowsPE, but the bootable disk created by easyUEFI didn't boot on my iMac.
nice! i have the exact same imac, i'm about to also install ubuntu... wish me luck!
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