rEFInd has been working great on my MacBook Pro 2014 under Yosemite (with Ubuntu dual booted), and I'ld like to thank you guys for a great piece of software!!
However, I ran into some problems when I tried to upgrade to El Capitan. I belive the issue had something to do with the new 'System Integrity Protection' (SIP) that El Capitan introduced. The installer messed up my drive partitions and left me with a broken system, which I'm not very pleased about. Maybe Apple may become more eco-friendly with its customers modes of operation in the future.
The most expedient solution for my situation was to load a Live Ubuntu CD and backup all my data from both OS' (though I had a fairly recent Time-Machine backup for OSX) then erase the hard disk and partitions and start again.
I now have El Capitan installed and am considering my options before reinstalling Ubuntu and rEFInd. I thought I would post here to seek some advice. When/if Apple decide to release the next update for El Capitan, I don't want to have to rebuild my system again.
Any suggestions on how to tackle the next step?
Cheers,
Nap
Last edit: Nap 2016-01-23
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Your problems are unfortunate, but you haven't presented me with enough details to have many ideas of what went wrong. My suspicion is that SIP was not to blame, though; if the partitions were, indeed, "messed up," then that suggests an error with the partitioning tool, or perhaps the partition table had an error going into the upgrade and the upgrade simply exacerbated this pre-existing problem. (A damaged hybrid MBR could cause such a problem, for instance.)
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rEFInd has been working great on my MacBook Pro 2014 under Yosemite (with Ubuntu dual booted), and I'ld like to thank you guys for a great piece of software!!
However, I ran into some problems when I tried to upgrade to El Capitan. I belive the issue had something to do with the new 'System Integrity Protection' (SIP) that El Capitan introduced. The installer messed up my drive partitions and left me with a broken system, which I'm not very pleased about. Maybe Apple may become more eco-friendly with its customers modes of operation in the future.
The most expedient solution for my situation was to load a Live Ubuntu CD and backup all my data from both OS' (though I had a fairly recent Time-Machine backup for OSX) then erase the hard disk and partitions and start again.
I now have El Capitan installed and am considering my options before reinstalling Ubuntu and rEFInd. I thought I would post here to seek some advice. When/if Apple decide to release the next update for El Capitan, I don't want to have to rebuild my system again.
Any suggestions on how to tackle the next step?
Cheers,
Nap
Last edit: Nap 2016-01-23
Another way to ask the same question; Is it possible to uninstall rEFInd so that the Mac boots using the manufacturer's defaults?
For rEFInd uninstallation instructions, see its documentation:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#uninstalling
Your problems are unfortunate, but you haven't presented me with enough details to have many ideas of what went wrong. My suspicion is that SIP was not to blame, though; if the partitions were, indeed, "messed up," then that suggests an error with the partitioning tool, or perhaps the partition table had an error going into the upgrade and the upgrade simply exacerbated this pre-existing problem. (A damaged hybrid MBR could cause such a problem, for instance.)