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Hi Everybody,
I've use archlinux for some years now on my old bios-based notebook and I'm very happy about this.
Recently I decided to give Archlinux a go on my MacBook Pro 6,2 and I did install it succesfully but using the EFI mode, maintaining the OSX partition.
Now, as you might now, the nvidia proprietary drivers don't work when in EFI mode so, after reading the wiki and other external doc pages, I decided to try to install archlinux in such a way the BIOS-compatibility mode of the mac is triggered.
My problem is that, after the installation, I'm unable to boot in arch, in particular I get the "GRUB loading" screen and then nothing, the laptop reboots as if GRUB misses something.
For the sake of clarity I'm going to explain my setup:
1] After booting into the Arch CD I've created the necessary partition in my disk using cgdisk. Here is my configuration:
Part. # Size Partition Type Partition Name
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3.0 Kib free space
1 200.0 Mib EFI System
2 371.6 GiB Apple HFS/HFS+ Customer
3 200.0 Mib BIOS boot partition boot
4 93.8 GiB Linux filesystem arch2] After that I've initialized the partitions:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda3
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda43] Now I needed to sync the GPT with the hybrid MBR, Am I right? So I did this (following what explained here: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html
gisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.6
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Logical section size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0002ED9-7E0D-0000-0C11-0000AC500000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 6 sectors (3.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00
2 409640 779706511 371.6 GiB AF00 Customer
3 779706512 780116111 200.0 MiB EF02 boot
4 780116112 976773134 93.8 GiB 8300 boot
Command (? for help): r
Recovery/transormation command (? for help): o
Disk size is 976773168 sectors (465.8 GiB)
MBR disk identifier: 0x000054F6
MBR partitions:
Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code
1 1 409639 primary 0xEE
2 409640 779706511 primary 0xAF
3 * 779706512 780116111 primary 0x83
4 780116112 976773134 primary 0x83 I hope the codes I put in the MBR and in GPT are right.... I've put 0x83 for the MBR partition number 3 because
it is ext2 formatted. Is it correct? Do I need to use another code?
4] Now I've installed Arch:
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/boot
pacstrap /mnt base5] Initial system setup (locale, font, time, genfstab..)
6] Now comes the tricky part, at least for me. I want to install GRUB (bios). Following the suggestions in this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1270009, I've done this:
pacman -S grub-bios os-prober
modprobe dm-mod
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --debug --force /dev/sda3
chattr -i /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img
mkdir -p /boot/grub/locale
cp /usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
chattr +i /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfgNow, if I reboot and I press the Alt key, I can see the OSX and "Windows" (I guess this is the default name the mac efi assign to the BIOS bootable partition ?) disks icons, if I select the Windows' disk I see the
GRUB Loading...text for a few seconds and then the system reboots.
Can someone help me? What did I possibily make wrong?
Fell free to insult me if I did something super wrong!
Thank you in advance!
Last edited by olric86 (2013-05-10 12:42:06)
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