Re: [Mactel-linux-users] trashed refit

[Geoffrey M. <li...@se...>]

Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> 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

Yeah, tried that, no go.  I'm assuming you mean gptsync?

> 
> hope this helps.
> 
> Justin P. Mattock
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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