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I've been running Arch on my MacBook4 (4 years old now) for quite some time in dualboot mode and have already set up GRUB sucessfully several times. I therefore feel kinda bad that I have to open a new thread this time, but after wasting the whole morning on Google, I don't see another solution.
What has happened is that I had to resize my Linux partitions because there was no space left on my system partition. I have the following partitions:
sda1 - fat32 EFI partition
sda2 - hfs+ Mac partition
sda3 - ext4 Arch system partition
sda4 - ext4 Arch home partition
As mentioned, when I first organized my Arch partitions this way, I could successfully set up GRUB, but it was GRUB1 which I had to set up via grub shell. Now, as it looks to me, GRUB1 is not available anymore but only GRUB2 which doesn't use the grub shell anymore. I've not been able to install GRUB2 the last time (that's why I ended up using GRUB1) and I'm still not able to install it this time!
When I start the MacBook and choose the Linux partition in rEFIt, I get to a black screen displaying GRUB_ and doing nothing more (because I don't have GRUB set up). That's how far I am right now.
Now can anyone help me with setting up GRUB(2)? Thanks in advance for any help!
Last edited by cryptkeeper (2012-09-05 06:13:14)
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I've succeeded in working around the problem of installing GRUB2 after I found out that grub-legary is nothing else but GRUB1. So all I had to do to get back a running system was:
- removing the GRUB2 installation
- installing grub-legacy
- copying my old menu.lst to /boot/grub/
- grub shell: root (hd0,2); setup (hd0); quit
Now it works like a charm again.
Still I only consider this thread half solved because I still don't know how to install GRUB2 on my system. It's not of vital interest to me anymore (I don't care too much why, that is, due to which boot loader, my system boots, as long as it boots), but a solution would nonetheless be nice since this thread is opened anyway.
So: How can GRUB2 be installed on a MacBook dualboot system with rEFIt such as mine?
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