unable to boot Linux w Mac OS X 10.9 (mavericks)
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using Mac OS X mavericks: is there a solution for an Intel Macbook Pro:
with refind 0.7.7 installed /
after refind boots (showing the icon options, selecting the Linux icon results in "no bootable device" screen
the REFIND folder on Mac needed the copying of the drivers folder into it
so copied drivers_x64 folder into /EFI/refind
(this wasn't necessary under 10.8, or was it?)
The EFI drivers aren't necessary if you're using BIOS instead of EFI to boot Linux.
Even if you're booting Linux using EFI, you don't need the EFI drivers if you can put your Linux EFI boot files on a HFS or FAT partition and those boot files don't need to use EFI to read files from a different file system using the EFI drivers (maybe the Linux EFI boot files have their own method of reading files from non HFS and FAT file systems). I don't know that such a Linux exists.
GRUB can read a variety of filesystems, so GRUB on FAT (or HFS+ for Macs) can read a Linux kernel from most Linux-native filesystems. AFAIK, all other Linux boot loaders for EFI requite the kernel and initrd file to be on an EFI-readable filesystem.