Macbook Pro 9,1 stuck after boot

ExplosionPills · 2013-08-29 14:06:23

There doesn't seem to be a tutorial on the wiki for Macbook Pro 9,1 specifically (it skips from 8,* to 9,2). I've been following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook

I already have an Ubuntu partition installed on this machine in addition to OSX. I am using rEFInd as the boot loader. I also got an EFI USB (I think) with Arch on it.

I created the "free space" partition. When I booted with the USB, Arch showed up in the rEFInd menu and was able to boot from the USB.

Now the area where I'm stuck is at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook#EFI_2. I assume you're supposed to run `cgdisk` on *something*, but what? The entire drive or the target partition? I'm also not sure how to do the "delete the partition you just made" step (why, it's already free space?) and the +128M instruction is confusing.

Assuming that that all gets done, I find the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … tall_Guide instructions very unclear. There are no specific commands. I guess you're supposed to do what you want to do, but I need more guidance than that. For instance I have no idea what to do at the "Format Disks" step, and the "Create an UEFI System Partition in Linux" says to use GParted, but at this point I have no GUI for Arch since it's running off the USB. The wiki also seems to say that an Internet connection is necessary to complete installation, but at the same time the connection does not work out of the box. I can't install the wifi drivers since Arch is still running off the USB, but then apparently I can't install Arch on the machine without Internet.

I was also following the tutorial here: http://www.muktware.com/5451/how-install-arch-linux as it has clearer commands, but it seems to be outdated. I'm wary of experimenting because I somehow corrupted my installation of Ubuntu and was no longer able to access it -- I had to reinstall it.

I also get the feeling that it would be much easier to install Arch from Ubuntu (which I have running), especially since this exists: https://github.com/brain0/genbootstrap -- but I'm even confused about that. Specifically the instructions say "Create your partitions and mount them..." Why would I need more than one partition? I'm also not sure that this will play nice with the Macbook hardware/EFI/rEFInd.

Any advice?

Trilby · 2013-08-29 16:13:16

You'll run cgdisk on the drive. Those instructions are assuming you created a partition for arch with OS X's tool which was in the previous section - if it is just free space, you will not need to delete a partition, just create one.

The installation guide correctly redirects you to the beginners guide if you aren't experienced installing arch. Follow that link. You will skip the partitioning steps as you have just done that. An internet connection is necessary ... so provide some information about the errors you are getting if you want help with that.

Don't follow guides on other websites. If you opt to do so, no one here will be able to help when you have problems.

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#1 2013-08-29 14:06:23

Macbook Pro 9,1 stuck after boot

#2 2013-08-29 16:13:16

Re: Macbook Pro 9,1 stuck after boot

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