Got rolling 16 to work after some tweeks to GRUB but now after running dist-uprade, rolling 17 refuses to load.
Error message upon loading=
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lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during s y s i n i t
"disk/by-uuid/843e046a-4e80-400c-bd85-d02b9014da62": Invalid path for Logical volume.
fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
/dev/sda6: clean, (more / numbers) files, (more / numbers) blocks
[ 14. a series of numbers] USB 2-4: firmware failed to load isight.fw (-2)
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After pressing e on grub menu and inserting rw nomodset after quiet, I get the same error message except the usb says 7-4 instead of 2-4 and the number series went from 14.&tc to 15.5515481
This screen comes on then flashes on and off maybe 4 or 5 times then it just stays that way. However, booting into recovery mode will allow terminal input for maintenance.
For what it's worth I'm running from an early (May) 2008 MacBook.