[SOLVED] SysLinux Not Found on MacbookAir

doctorzeus · 2014-12-08 14:24:41

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

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ackt1c · 2014-12-08 14:31:47

Disk

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doctorzeus · 2014-12-08 14:44:41

ackt1c wrote:

What is being detected by the BIOS?

Thanks for the reply,

The only options are to network boot, or the Mac web recovery..

ackt1c · 2014-12-08 14:56:15

Part

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doctorzeus · 2014-12-09 03:13:40

ackt1c wrote:

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

ackt1c · 2014-12-09 04:08:39

Pc

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doctorzeus · 2014-12-09 11:34:00

ackt1c wrote:

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

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doctorzeus · 2014-12-09 23:35:26

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:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html

ackt1c · 2014-12-10 10:21:22

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