Great program, use it all the time on a MacAir, but problems istalling on new iMac. I've tried both Refit and Refind, no errors on installation, but still booting directly into OSX (reboot numerous times, hold option key, no Refind). Refind was installed using install.sh and there were no errors. In anticipation of installing Ubuntu, these are my partitions:
/dev/sda1 fat32 EFI 200mb
/dev/sda2 hfs+ MacHD 531.34gb
/dev/sda3 hfs+ Recovery 620mb
unallocated 128mb
/dev/sda4 ext4 data 2.2tb
/dev/sda5 ext4 linux 9.28gb mount as /
/dev/sda6 linux-swap 3.96gb
However, there is another SATA drive that I suspect is part of the problem/solution:
Apple SSD SM128E Media 121Gb SATA
dev/sdb1 fat32 EFI 210mb
dev/sdb2 unkown 121Gb
dev/sdb3 AppleBootPartition HFS+ Boot OSx (label) Booter (partition label)
Do I need to install Refind onto sdb? If so, which partition (sdb3?)? Subsequently, what do I designate as the "device for boot loader installation" when installing Ubuntu?
As a work around, without Refind, can I designate sda as the Ubuntu boot loader (tried sda1 already, hold option key on boot, no luck)?
Appreciate any help.
--joe
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I recommend you grab the development version of install.sh from the git repository. This version of install.sh includes a new option, called --ownhfs {device-id}, which installs rEFInd to an HFS+ volume that is NOT currently an OS X boot volume. (You must specify the device filename, as in /dev/disk0s4 or whatever, as {device-id}.) It installs it in a somewhat different way than is done currently, though, the result of which is that rEFInd should look more like OS X and be selectable using OS X's own boot manager. It's possible that installing in this way will work around your problems.
Alternatively, you could try installing to the ESP by using the --esp option. That seems to be a bit troublesome for some users, though.
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Thanks for the help. Have tried your suggestion but hitting a wall. Upon executing the command:
sudo /Volumes/Untitled/refind-bin-0.7.5/install.sh --ownhfs /dev/disk1
I get this output:
Installing rEFInd on OS X....
mount_hfs: Resource busy
Couldn't mount /dev/disk1 ! Aborting!
When I do the same for disk1s1, I get this:
Installing rEFInd on OS X....
mount_hfs: Invalid argument
Couldn't mount /dev/disk1s1 ! Aborting!
Same results even after executing: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Any ideas? I'm confused as to the Apple partitions... from which EFI partition is the Mac booting: disk0 or disk1? Should I try installing Refind on disk0 (bit reluctant to screw something up!)? Ultimately, should Grub go onto disk0 or disk1?
These are the drives as viewed from inside osx:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 570.5 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 10.0 GB disk1s5
5: Linux Swap 4.2 GB disk1s6
6: Microsoft Basic Data 2.4 TB disk1s7
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *677.0 GB disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
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The device you specify must be a partition, and it must contain an HFS+ filesystem. On your system, /dev/disk1 is a whole-disk device, not a partition; and /dev/disk1s1 is an ESP (which presumably uses FAT).
I can't tell from your output which partition(s) do not contain OS X installations, and it's critical that you specify a partition that does not hold an OS X installation to the --ownhfs option. My guess is that /dev/disk1s2 would be OK, but I can't be positive of that. That's a 570GB partition on your second disk.
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Finally found some time to finish this install using your suggestions. This is the 4th Mac I've set up for dual boot and each one has it's own unique problems. I appreciate the work you've put into rEFIt and rEFInd. The OSX/Ubuntu dual boot is working nicely and I thought I would document what I did for the benefit of others.
This Mac has a 128mb flash drive (disk0) and a 3tb HDD (disk1), which is managed by Apple's Fusion drive. From what I understand, Fusion creates some sort of pseudo drive (disk2) from these two physical drives where it “actively” moves the more oft-accessed files to the flash drive. Your requirement for rEFInd to be installed on an HFS+ partition without any OSX files made me reluctant to install it on any HFS+ partition used by Fusion. I don't know if Fusion moves the operating system folders so, to be on the safe side, I created a separate small HFS+ partition for rEFInd.
For the benefit of others, these are my notes for the successful install...
The first step was to resize the partitions using OSX's disk utility. The empty space (disk1s4) is where Ubuntu and rEFInd will be installed. These are the partitions after the resize:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 570.5 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 2.4 TB disk1s4
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *677.0 GB disk2
Note: /dev/disk2 seems to be a "psuedo" disk created by apple's Fusion drive (a combination of disk0 and disk1).
Next, boot to a Ubuntu Live CD but I encountered one annoying quirk: the boot process automatically ejects the CD unless I log into OSX and click “ignore” when it says it can't read the CD. For some reason, this sets a flag which prevents the CD from being ejected during the boot process.
Using gparted from the Live CD, I created partitions for rEFInd, the Ubuntu OS, a shared data drive, and swap (leaving 128mb following the mac partitions, which I read somewhere was a requirement):
/dev/sda1 fat32 EFI 200mb
/dev/sda2 hfs+ MacHD 531.34gb
/dev/sda3 hfs+ Recovery 619.89mb
unallocated 128.42mb
/dev/sda4 hfs+ refind 200.0mb
/dev/sda7 hfs+ data 2.2tb
/dev/sda5 ext4 linux 9.28gb
/dev/sda6 linux-swap 3.96gb
Reboot to OSX; this is the new output from the command diskutil list:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 570.5 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Apple_HFS refind 209.7 MB disk1s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data 10.0 GB disk1s5
6: Linux Swap 4.2 GB disk1s6
7: Microsoft Basic Data 2.4 TB disk1s7
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *677.0 GB disk2
Unpack rEFInd into the home directory, replace install.sh with the development version, execute this command from the terminal (will prompt for sudo pw):
install.sh --ownhfs /dev/disk1s4
Success! However, a brief moment of panic when I reboot and see no apple icon on the EFI menu. It does appear after hitting the ESC key, a problem that is solved later by setting scan_delay=1.
Next, I installed Ubuntu with sda5 mounted as / and the boot loader installed on sda (ignore the warning about a boot partition).
And this is the customized screen:
timeout 15
hideui banner label hints
icons_dir myicons
showtools
scan_delay 1
max_tags 2
default_selection linux
Great program, use it all the time on a MacAir, but problems istalling on new iMac. I've tried both Refit and Refind, no errors on installation, but still booting directly into OSX (reboot numerous times, hold option key, no Refind). Refind was installed using install.sh and there were no errors. In anticipation of installing Ubuntu, these are my partitions:
/dev/sda1 fat32 EFI 200mb
/dev/sda2 hfs+ MacHD 531.34gb
/dev/sda3 hfs+ Recovery 620mb
unallocated 128mb
/dev/sda4 ext4 data 2.2tb
/dev/sda5 ext4 linux 9.28gb mount as /
/dev/sda6 linux-swap 3.96gb
However, there is another SATA drive that I suspect is part of the problem/solution:
Apple SSD SM128E Media 121Gb SATA
dev/sdb1 fat32 EFI 210mb
dev/sdb2 unkown 121Gb
dev/sdb3 AppleBootPartition HFS+ Boot OSx (label) Booter (partition label)
Do I need to install Refind onto sdb? If so, which partition (sdb3?)? Subsequently, what do I designate as the "device for boot loader installation" when installing Ubuntu?
As a work around, without Refind, can I designate sda as the Ubuntu boot loader (tried sda1 already, hold option key on boot, no luck)?
Appreciate any help.
--joe
I recommend you grab the development version of
install.shfrom the git repository. This version ofinstall.shincludes a new option, called--ownhfs {device-id}, which installs rEFInd to an HFS+ volume that is NOT currently an OS X boot volume. (You must specify the device filename, as in/dev/disk0s4or whatever, as{device-id}.) It installs it in a somewhat different way than is done currently, though, the result of which is that rEFInd should look more like OS X and be selectable using OS X's own boot manager. It's possible that installing in this way will work around your problems.Alternatively, you could try installing to the ESP by using the
--espoption. That seems to be a bit troublesome for some users, though.Thanks for the help. Have tried your suggestion but hitting a wall. Upon executing the command:
sudo /Volumes/Untitled/refind-bin-0.7.5/install.sh --ownhfs /dev/disk1
I get this output:
Installing rEFInd on OS X....
mount_hfs: Resource busy
Couldn't mount /dev/disk1 ! Aborting!
When I do the same for disk1s1, I get this:
Installing rEFInd on OS X....
mount_hfs: Invalid argument
Couldn't mount /dev/disk1s1 ! Aborting!
Same results even after executing: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Any ideas? I'm confused as to the Apple partitions... from which EFI partition is the Mac booting: disk0 or disk1? Should I try installing Refind on disk0 (bit reluctant to screw something up!)? Ultimately, should Grub go onto disk0 or disk1?
These are the drives as viewed from inside osx:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 570.5 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 10.0 GB disk1s5
5: Linux Swap 4.2 GB disk1s6
6: Microsoft Basic Data 2.4 TB disk1s7
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *677.0 GB disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
The device you specify must be a partition, and it must contain an HFS+ filesystem. On your system,
/dev/disk1is a whole-disk device, not a partition; and/dev/disk1s1is an ESP (which presumably uses FAT).I can't tell from your output which partition(s) do not contain OS X installations, and it's critical that you specify a partition that does not hold an OS X installation to the
--ownhfsoption. My guess is that/dev/disk1s2would be OK, but I can't be positive of that. That's a 570GB partition on your second disk.Finally found some time to finish this install using your suggestions. This is the 4th Mac I've set up for dual boot and each one has it's own unique problems. I appreciate the work you've put into rEFIt and rEFInd. The OSX/Ubuntu dual boot is working nicely and I thought I would document what I did for the benefit of others.
This Mac has a 128mb flash drive (disk0) and a 3tb HDD (disk1), which is managed by Apple's Fusion drive. From what I understand, Fusion creates some sort of pseudo drive (disk2) from these two physical drives where it “actively” moves the more oft-accessed files to the flash drive. Your requirement for rEFInd to be installed on an HFS+ partition without any OSX files made me reluctant to install it on any HFS+ partition used by Fusion. I don't know if Fusion moves the operating system folders so, to be on the safe side, I created a separate small HFS+ partition for rEFInd.
For the benefit of others, these are my notes for the successful install...
The machine: iMac 13,2 ; Intel Core i7 ; 3.4 GHz processor ; 16 Gb memory
Downloads:
ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64+mac.iso from http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/
rEFInd from http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/
development version of install.sh from http://sourceforge.net/p/refind/code/ci/master/tree/
The first step was to resize the partitions using OSX's disk utility. The empty space (disk1s4) is where Ubuntu and rEFInd will be installed. These are the partitions after the resize:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 570.5 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 2.4 TB disk1s4
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *677.0 GB disk2
Note: /dev/disk2 seems to be a "psuedo" disk created by apple's Fusion drive (a combination of disk0 and disk1).
Next, boot to a Ubuntu Live CD but I encountered one annoying quirk: the boot process automatically ejects the CD unless I log into OSX and click “ignore” when it says it can't read the CD. For some reason, this sets a flag which prevents the CD from being ejected during the boot process.
Using gparted from the Live CD, I created partitions for rEFInd, the Ubuntu OS, a shared data drive, and swap (leaving 128mb following the mac partitions, which I read somewhere was a requirement):
/dev/sda1 fat32 EFI 200mb
/dev/sda2 hfs+ MacHD 531.34gb
/dev/sda3 hfs+ Recovery 619.89mb
unallocated 128.42mb
/dev/sda4 hfs+ refind 200.0mb
/dev/sda7 hfs+ data 2.2tb
/dev/sda5 ext4 linux 9.28gb
/dev/sda6 linux-swap 3.96gb
Reboot to OSX; this is the new output from the command diskutil list:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 570.5 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Apple_HFS refind 209.7 MB disk1s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data 10.0 GB disk1s5
6: Linux Swap 4.2 GB disk1s6
7: Microsoft Basic Data 2.4 TB disk1s7
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *677.0 GB disk2
Unpack rEFInd into the home directory, replace install.sh with the development version, execute this command from the terminal (will prompt for sudo pw):
install.sh --ownhfs /dev/disk1s4
Success! However, a brief moment of panic when I reboot and see no apple icon on the EFI menu. It does appear after hitting the ESC key, a problem that is solved later by setting scan_delay=1.
Next, I installed Ubuntu with sda5 mounted as / and the boot loader installed on sda (ignore the warning about a boot partition).
And this is the customized screen:
timeout 15
hideui banner label hints
icons_dir myicons
showtools
scan_delay 1
max_tags 2
default_selection linux