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I'm trying to dual boot arch with macOS.
I followed this guide https://youtu.be/x0Qmaa38UM8 . Everything works fine until I have to install intel-ucode: it says that It can't installing it cause a intel-ucode.img already exists, so I tried to remove it and it seems the installation was successful.
If I go ahead and try
bootctl --path=/<bootLoaderDir> installit freeze saying it's a cpu problem.
I'm using a MacBook Pro 2019, so intel-based
running BigSur 11.2.3 version
I use rEFInd as bootloader (should I use it? can I just use the Mac base bootloader?)
I read online that it's hard to install linux on late MBP 2016 and onwards, now I would like to know if I'm doing something wrong or if it isn't already possible to do it.
on this wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/microcode#rEFInd , it says that I need to edit " boot options in /boot/refind_linux.conf and add initrd=boot\cpu_manufacturer-ucode.img ".
I look for refind_linux.conf file but I can't find a file with the same name, just similar.
Last edited by Gio200023 (2021-04-29 13:23:45)
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That freeze is probably bootctl writing to nvram, which the t2 chip doesn't like. You can use --no-variables to prevent bootctl touching nvram. You might also want to take a look at https://wiki.t2linux.org
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