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Hello,
As you probably can guess from the title, I cannot get syslinux to be picked up by the bios on my Macbook Air. On boot-up Syslinux cannot be detected by the bios as at all.
I have installed arch on more computers then I can count but never on a macbook or a gpt disk so maybe it may have something to do with my partitioning or something.
Here is a screenshot of my partition layout:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/116 … okDisk.png
I also installed syslinux by installing gptfdisk and then using the automatic installer and no errors occurred.
Any Suggestions?
Regards
DoctorZeus
Last edited by doctorzeus (2014-12-11 17:57:33)
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Last edited by ackt1c (2022-11-05 13:05:23)
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What is being detected by the BIOS?
Thanks for the reply,
The only options are to network boot, or the Mac web recovery..
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Last edited by ackt1c (2022-11-05 13:05:47)
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There was a long conversation yesterday in #archlinux about deleting a partition won't erase a MBR. You have failed to point to the device with syslinux or write a MBR for syslinux all together.
Can you give me a link to that post or a walkthrough on how to do this please?
Many Thanks
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Last edited by ackt1c (2022-11-05 13:06:15)
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Sorry I don't keep irc logs.
But you can toggle bootable devices in
cfdisk
Make sure to write.
Thanks for the reply but I tried before but it doesn't allow me to set any partitions on the drive as bootable as the option isn't even available (I assumed it was because it has a gpt disk)?
DoctorZeus
Last edited by doctorzeus (2014-12-09 17:15:05)
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Ok managed to fix it, I needed to convert the disk from GPT to MBR..
Thanks for all the help though.
For future reference I found out how to do this here:
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