[wplug] Dual boot w/OS X

[John Lewis]

Have you tried this thread
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/465921-How-to-dual-boot-Mac-OSX-and-openSUSE-11-4?

I don't think OS X supports Linux LVM at all.

On 04/02/2014 07:15 PM, Justin Smith wrote:
> Does anyone have experience dual booting Linux and OS X? I've been trying 
> to set up OpenSUSE on a couple of ~2009-2010 Mac Minis by using the 
> rEFInd[1] boot manager, but I'm having a devil of a time getting it to work. I 
> guess I just don't understand how you're supposed to partition Linux after 
> you install rEFInd from OS X using the supplied install.sh script. 
> 
> If I remember correctly, the OpenSUSE installer recommends a fairly 
> standard setup of non-LVM EXT4 partitions. I went with that, but it wouldn't 
> boot; the bootloader said it couldn't find the hard disk and hung. I also 
> noticed that rEFInd mistook my OpenSUSE root partition for FAT even 
> though it was EXT4 (and I had installed all filesystem drivers, including 
> ext4, via install.sh --alldrivers). 
> 
> As an alternative, you can have the OpenSUSE installer recommend an LVM 
> setup. That's what I tried next. Well, this configuration overwrote rEFInd 
> with GRUB2-EFI, which is /not/ what I wanted. OS X was listed in the GRUB 
> boot menu, but it threw a kernel panic when I tried to select it.
> 
> I /was/ able to get dual-booting to work correctly by re-installing rEFInd 
> from Linux, but I don't understand /why/ that worked. I'd like to be able to 
> set up dual booting without clobbering rEFInd and then re-installing it.
>