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Refind triple boot issue Macbook Pro

2015-07-23
2015-07-28
  • Gjeme Markaj

    Gjeme Markaj - 2015-07-23

    Hi, anyone who can assist with this issue?

    I had a dual boot setup using OSX/Win7, all was working fine. I installed refind, added another partition and installed Linux on the new partition. When the machine boots, refind launches, shows me all 3 OSs. I can boot OSX & Linux, but now, it cannot find Win7. I get "operating system not found" only for Win7. When I'm using OSX, I can see the Windows files on the BOOTCAMP partition so its still there, it just seems that refit can't find the WIN7 MBR.
    Any help is greatly appreciated!

     
  • Roderick W. Smith

    Chances are your Ubuntu installation has replaced your hybrid MBR with a
    standard protective MBR. Consult the gdisk hybrid MBR information here:

    http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html

    You can probably restore Windows to bootability by creating a fresh
    hybrid MBR using gdisk. The Windows boot partition must be included in
    the hybrid MBR. It's conceivable you'll need to use Windows tools to
    re-install the Windows boot loader from an emergency disk after you
    create a fresh hybrid MBR, as well.

     
  • Chuck Theobald

    Chuck Theobald - 2015-07-28

    I had a similar situation. Dual boot with Windows 8.1 and Yosemite worked fine, then I divided the Windows partition and installed Ubuntu. At this point, only OS X was bootable. No Windows tools could fix the problem, but reinstalling rEFInd got all three partitions bootable again.

     

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