Current status for Mac OSX 10.10 with FileVault 2

[DarkAngel88]

Hi,

I was looking for informations on the current status of rEFInd working with OSX 10.10 using an encrypted drive (using FileVault 2) but I've found nothing. Can anyone tell me if all those technologies are working fine together as of now? Is there anything I need to be aware of before installing rEFInd?

My goal is to dual boot linux and OSX on my MacBookPro6,2.

Thanks,
DA

[emmm]

I have the same question, even with the same MacBook.

[DarkAngel88]

Anyone?

[emmm]

I've been working on it. So far, I have successfully installed rEFInd using this method onto the esp: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/yosemite.html

However, then I realized that I needed to turn off FileVault and decrypt my hard drive before I could resize the partition, and ever since I did this, rEFInd doesn't boot at startup and it just automatically boots to the Mac OS. I've checked that the ESP is mounted, and it is. I'm thinking about uninstalling it and starting over.

[Roderick W. Smith]

Emmm is correct; you can follow the Yosemite instructions for installing with encryption. Emmm's problem can be solved by re-running the installation script or by re-running bless to bless the copy of rEFInd on the ESP or separate HFS+ partition.

I've made changes to the install.sh script to install to the ESP by default, since this problem is becoming much more common. This version is on the git repository now, and I plan to release it with 0.8.4 in the near future -- probably early next week. (I need to make changes to lots of places in the documentation, which will take me some time to do. In the meantime, what's in git now should be pretty close to 0.8.4, although I may make a few minor changes.)

[emmm]

Re-running the installation script is exactly what I did, Roderick, and it works fine now. It is having that 30 second delay at startup, but I don't know if I'm going to do anything about it since it's not a huge issue. Thanks for your help, and for your continued work on rEFInd!

[joevt]

Create a small HFS partition (200 MB) and install to that. That will get rid of the 30 second delay at startup. Plus you can see the rEFInd files all the time without having to use special commands to mount the EFI partition.

[Roderick W. Smith]

Some people report that renaming rEFInd from EFI/refind/refind_x64.efi to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi on the ESP and re-blessing under that name will also eliminate the delay. FWIW, the install.sh script now installs to the ESP under that name by default, since creating a separate HFS+ volume for rEFInd alone is too complicated and dangerous to do in install.sh.