I'm trying to install rEFInd on an iMac 5,1. 32 bit UEFI, 64bit CPU. my end goal is to run Libreelec 9. I did have Libreelec 8 working fine on the machine using GRUB.
The iMac does not have a working DVD. I did install mac osx 10.6.8 on a usb hdd.
I installed libreelec 9 on a drive and installed it into the imac. It booted fine as both versions of uefi grub were on the installation. It did fail during boot because of video issues. NOMODESET allowed me to boot farther but I believe booting in uefi mode does not properly initialize the video card.
I then setup the disk from scratch. GPT disk. 512mb EFI partition FAT16. 2nd partition where "KERNEL" is located is EXT3. I can boot from external macos drive and bless the refind installation. Confirm this works because it boots much faster. refind cannot find my "KERNEL". "Invalid loader file!"
Is there a way to tell which drivers are loaded? I only have ext2 and ext3 plus iso drivers loaded.
Is there an EFI shell that I could run on this imac that would let me see which drives are present?
Thanks in advance.
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I'm trying to install rEFInd on an iMac 5,1. 32 bit UEFI, 64bit CPU. my end goal is to run Libreelec 9. I did have Libreelec 8 working fine on the machine using GRUB.
The iMac does not have a working DVD. I did install mac osx 10.6.8 on a usb hdd.
I installed libreelec 9 on a drive and installed it into the imac. It booted fine as both versions of uefi grub were on the installation. It did fail during boot because of video issues. NOMODESET allowed me to boot farther but I believe booting in uefi mode does not properly initialize the video card.
I then setup the disk from scratch. GPT disk. 512mb EFI partition FAT16. 2nd partition where "KERNEL" is located is EXT3. I can boot from external macos drive and bless the refind installation. Confirm this works because it boots much faster. refind cannot find my "KERNEL". "Invalid loader file!"
Is there a way to tell which drivers are loaded? I only have ext2 and ext3 plus iso drivers loaded.
Is there an EFI shell that I could run on this imac that would let me see which drives are present?
Thanks in advance.