Help on El Capitan 10.11 ?

[Senad Aruc]

Dears,

I tried the last versin of rEFInd at 10.11 El Capitan without a sucess! is there any solution for this?

Thanks.

[Roderick W. Smith]

If you're referring to the inability to install rEFInd from El Capitan, this problem is known, and is described in the rEFInd installation instructions:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html

Search on "El Capitan" to find the information, including a workaround. Unfortunately, this is not easily overcome except by rebooting and manually typing those commands -- or at least, if it can be overcome, I don't know how to do it. You can blame Apple for this; it seems they're trying to take control of your computers.

[Senad Aruc]

Dear Smith,

Thanks for the kind response and please note that even with "System Integrity Protection" DISABLED i can't install the Refind. I will try the workarounds and let you know.

Thanks.

My curent status for System Integrity Protection:

⇒ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: enabled (Custom Configuration).

Configuration:
Apple Internal: disabled
Kext Signing: disabled
Filesystem Protections: disabled
Debugging Restrictions: disabled
DTrace Restrictions: disabled
NVRAM Protections: disabled

This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state.

[Roderick W. Smith]

If it's not working at that point, you must provide more details of the failure than simply "it doesn't work." What error message(s) are you seeing? What happens when you reboot?

[Senad Aruc]

Dear Smith,

The manual way of installing just worked prefect for me.

Thanks.

[Senad Aruc]

Dear Smith,

Can i define a linux-kali boot config on Refidn config? this is my diskutil list where my linux is installed on /dev/disk2.

senad@Senads-MBP-Work:~|⇒ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Root 499.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Root +499.0 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
D5C69ABC-2AE7-4861-B701-4DC5030C5DA9
Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 259.7 GB disk2
1: EFI NO NAME 536.9 MB disk2s1
2: Linux Filesystem 242.1 GB disk2s2
3: Linux Swap 17.0 GB disk2s3

Thanks.

[Matthew Janik]

I wrote about how I got rEFInd to work here:
http://mattjanik.ca/blog/2015/10/01/refind-on-el-capitan/

it involves simply reinstalling, getting access to EFI partition, and renaming some folders/files to fool the mac into booting rEFInd as bootx64.efi instead of refindx64.efi (sp).

[Roderick W. Smith]

Thanks for that pointer. I'll try to look into this matter this weekend.

[Matthew Janik]

No problem, hope it helps. Have a feeling it won't install without disabling/modifying System Integrity Protection Good luck!

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Rather than disabling SIP, I managed to install rEFInd by booting into the recovery shell, starting a terminal, then doing

cd /Volumes/MyBootDrive/Users/myuser/Downloads/refind-0.9.2
export PATH="$PATH:/Volumes/MyBootDrive/bin:/Volumes/MyBootDrive/sbin:/Volumes/MyBootDrive/usr/bin::/Volumes/MyBootDrive/usr/sbin"
./install.sh

I think if install.sh could detect that it's running in recovery mode and automatically add the appropriate entries to $PATH this might be a good way to instruct people to install rEFInd since it avoids the potentially dangerous step of disabling SIP.

[Roderick W. Smith]

Thanks for the tip. I hope to look into this new challenge Apple has thrown us all this weekend, and I'll definitely look into $PATH manipulations.

[Alex]

patch available for install.sh in Recovery OS in merge request #5