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#1 2009-08-14 16:17:19
- mokasin
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GRUB2 EFI on a macbook
Has somebody successfully used GRUB2 without MacOSX and rEfit on a Macbook?
I would be pretty annoyed if I had to install MacOS again to get Linux running.
And I can't find a proper manual to do that.
Can't use efibootmgr because I can't load efivars kernel module (error: no such device)
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#2 2009-08-14 19:40:58
- djszapi
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Re: GRUB2 EFI on a macbook
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#3 2009-08-15 12:32:00
- mokasin
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Re: GRUB2 EFI on a macbook
Knew most of the links already. Thx.
Seems that there is no way arround reinstalling MacOSX to get GRUB2 running 
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#4 2009-08-15 16:24:51
- mokasin
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Re: GRUB2 EFI on a macbook
Okay, installed MacOSX, put rEFIt on the blessed EFI System Partition, purged macos and booting GRUB2 with rEFIt... maybe not the best thing, but at least it works 
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#5 2011-03-05 20:53:31
- karasu
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Re: GRUB2 EFI on a macbook
i can boot both ubuntu 10.10 from cd, as well as fedora 14. haven't have any luck with debian 6. when installing ubuntu just wipe the whole disk and the macbook should just boot normally. with fedora it doesn't however, and you need the installation cd, to select 'boot from hard disk'.
so i wonder whether arch would install and boot properly, because i'd love to switch to try out arch, but i don't have macos at the moment to reinstall refit (and frankly i don't want in on my system).
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#6 2011-03-06 12:47:48
- mokasin
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Re: GRUB2 EFI on a macbook
It works now using the instructions on http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook
For my model (2.16GHz (Core 2 Duo 64bit), GMA950) it is a 32bit! EFI. So the grub.efi has to be renamed to
/EFI/BOOT/BOOTIA32.EFI
Then it works without refit! No Macos needed. Just boot into a Live Distro (like the arch installer CD) by pressing and holding [ALT] until the boot option pops up.
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