[wplug] Dual boot w/OS X

[Douglas Green]

I have the older version reFit running on my late 2009 MacPro and everything is ok. It's been awhile since I installed it, but I do remember a couple of "leaps" I had to make during the install (conceptually, it's just like installing grub or pointing your efi to another boot loader). You might want to check the older versions with readme files, perhaps they have a little clearer documentation. If I got though it, anyone can. Also, check the more recent versions of apple's bootcamp to see if it supports your distro. There are several threads online about this. 
-D

> On Apr 2, 2014, at 4:15 PM, Justin Smith <justin at adminix.net> 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.
> 
> -- 
> *Justin Smith*
> GNU/Linux System Administrator
> 
> /"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."/
> 
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> [1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
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