Re: [Mactel-linux-users] trashed refit

[Justin P. M. <jus...@gm...>]

On 01/27/10 07:59, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> I have a MacBook Pro that was happily running MacOS X, Red Hat EL 5 and
> Fedora 9.  I wanted to install Red Hat El 5 64 bit, so I proceeded to
> replace my Fedora 9 with a new install of RHEL 64bit.  All seemed to go
> well until reboot.  Now, when it reboots, I get a square (I guess
> undefined OS) icon and the mac osx icon.  If I select the square icon,
> it attempts to boot, then produces a 'no operating system' error.  I can
> boot via the RH rescue disk and access all my filesystems.  How do I fix
> refit?  I've tried gptsync, but that does not fix the issue.  When I
> list the partitions in the refit shell, the Linux partitions are listed
> as 'basic data', is it possible this is the problem?
>
> Any insights would be greatly appreciated.


if you have the menu of refit, then on this menu
there should be an option to sync the partitions.
do that and see if it brings up grub/lilo

hope this helps.

Justin P. Mattock