#76 No Refit menu under 10.5.4

[Anonymous]

I updated to 10.5.4 yesterday, and as I expected, it wiped out Refit and booted straight into OS X.

I reinstalled Refit, but as I didn't expect, it still boots straight into OS X.

Possible change in 10.5.4 that defeats Refit?

System: 15 inch MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz (older than Santa Rosa, but don't know what chipset).

[Charles Gutjahr]

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I'm using 10.5.4 on a 17in Macbook Pro 2.4 Ghz, and see exactly the same problem. It seems refit doesn't get run; the machine always boots straight into OS X. Reinstalling has no effect.

As yet I haven't tried a manual install, I have been installing from the installer package.

[Michel Brosseau]

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Same here on Mac Pro BUT Refit is up and running on MacBook Pro!!!??

[Christoph Pfisterer]

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Works fine for me on both a Core Duo MacBook Pro and a Core 2 Duo "Santa Rosa" iMac. Any additional info you can provide?

[Jeff Deel]

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I'm having the same problem on my 8 core Mac Pro, yet oddly enough, my current generation iMac still works just fine, even though both machines have the same updates. I've tried removing everything rEFIt related and re-installing with no change. rEFIt still doesn't work, even though it used to on the Mac Pro. I even tried the full manual install with the same results. I use a wireless keyboard which doesn't initialize in time for me to hold down the "option" key and access my bootcamp menu, so I rely on rEFIt to switch between OSX and Windows (something I do very, very often) so it's starting to get rather annoying to have to keep a USB keyboard sitting next to me just so I can switch the OS... grrr. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

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Using rEFIt with boot camp on a Mac Mini in 10.5.4, and it works fine.
If I use the startup disk preference pane, however, the restart process skips rEFIt until the computer is powered down again.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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try unplugging your computer, taking out the battery and holding down the power button for 30 seconds. It worked for me.

[Michel Brosseau]

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Strange! I wrote on 2008-07-08 that my Mac Pro was no longer offering the boot menu when MBP was (both on Leopard).
Yesterday I was running Parallels (using boot camp on a dedicated hard drive) but I had to kill it; nothing was moving. Since then Refit boot menu is back on MP?

[Jordan]

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Hi all,

Having the same problems with no rEFIt window on a mackbook with Leopard 10.5.4

Don't have a lot of experience, but I noticed this elsewhere on the site: http://refit.sourceforge.net/doc/c4s4_safesleep.html

"This behaviour is made possible by the “rEFItBlesser” Startup Item that is installed by default when you use the installer package to install rEFIt. When Mac OS X starts up, rEFItBlesser sets the boot options to boot directly into Mac OS X. When Mac OS X shuts down cleanly, rEFItBlesser changes the setting back to point at the rEFIt menu. (This mechanism also lets you install rEFIt without having to run enable.sh manually.)"

Now, I looked in my startup items and there is nothing, so I'm thinking that rEFItBlesser might not be getting installed correctly. Doing a spotlight search for 'rEFItBlesser' shows that the only instances of it are in the mounted install drive that I just decompressed from the .dmg

I'm not sure how to fix this, or even if this is the right direction... just wanted to share what I saw

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Installation on mac mini core 2 duo, leopard 10.5.4:
- first install
- no refit after shutdown, startup
- had to unplug power cord after installation
- now refit works
- maybe this should be added to documentation

Great bootloader!
spblinux

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Same Problem here with a MacBook 2,1 C2D 2GHz.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I found this on another site and it has worked every time: Turn off your Mac completely allowing it no power whatsoever, i.e. no power cord or battery. Let 'em simmer for a second and then boot up. Presto! rEFIT now works.