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Admiral_Edo

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Registered: 2008-04-13

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[Dual Boot no SP] Installing on a 2nd gen Macbook Pro

Hi all,

I just installed refit, and made a partition with bootcamp for arch. After that I synchronized the partition table, however during the partition step in arch (creating 3 logical partitions on dev/sda3) the partition editor says we wrote the changes to the partition table but couldn't read them.  Is there anyway to make this work?

Thanks

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: [Dual Boot no SP] Installing on a 2nd gen Macbook Pro

did you use the editor in refit? It can copy GPT > partitiontable. I think you shouldn't cfdisk at all; it says on my mac

Warning!!  Unsupported GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected. Use GNU Parted.

Admiral_Edo

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Registered: 2008-04-13

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Re: [Dual Boot no SP] Installing on a 2nd gen Macbook Pro

I just used the editor in refit to synchronize the partition table.

cfdisk is used by arch installation iso to format the HD.

DShad

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 7

Re: [Dual Boot no SP] Installing on a 2nd gen Macbook Pro

Have you managed to find a solution to that problem?

I'd really like to install Arch on my MacBook (dual boot with MacOS)

Is there any way to fix this?

Last edited by DShad (2009-12-02 16:35:51)

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

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Re: [Dual Boot no SP] Installing on a 2nd gen Macbook Pro

Have you managed to find a solution to that problem?

I'd really like to install Arch on my MacBook (dual boot with MacOS)

Is there any way to fix this?

What problem are you referring to? It shouldn't be a problem to dualboot Archlinux, I have the same setup running for over a year now