Thanks for your bug report. The wiki at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro3-1/Intrepid indicates others have had success installing Intrepid so I'm unsure why your installation went so wrong.
Do you think you've hit the MBR bug documented on the wiki at at bug 222126? -- Intrepid MacBook Pro 3,1 "Santa Rosa" LiveCD Disaster https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs