rEFInd

[DaveQB]

How to dual boot Mavericks and 14.04

Hi,

After I haven't to get dual booting using grub2
http://www.tonymacx86.com/multi-booting/138790-grub2-mavericks-ubuntu-14-04-gpt-disk-ga-z77n.html

I am now trying rEFInd.

But no easy feat. I have posted over on the rEFInd sourceforge page the below:

Hi,
I have 1 SSD and Mac OS Mavericks and Ubuntu 14.04 on there now (upgraded them). Grub is on the disk bootloader (Still called MBR on GPT disks?)
Grub boots Ubuntu fine, but I can not get it to boot the Mac partition.

I have installed rEFInd to a USB thumbdrive. Booting off it detects both OSs. Selecting Ubuntu takes me to the grub menu and we boot find. Selecting to boot the Mac install, I get this error. "Unsupported while loading boot.efi"

http://i.imgur.com/6N1gXbm.png

I get this no matter which menu item I choose; all options are unsupported. It makes me feel there is another, underlying issue here. Maybe boot.efi is missing? I am not sure how to further troubleshoot this.

Any help appreciated.

https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/92a20f65/?limit=25#fb52

 

[RehabMan]

Hi,

After I haven't to get dual booting using grub2
http://www.tonymacx86.com/multi-booting/138790-grub2-mavericks-ubuntu-14-04-gpt-disk-ga-z77n.html

I am now trying rEFInd.

But no easy feat. I have posted over on the rEFInd sourceforge page the below:

Hi,
I have 1 SSD and Mac OS Mavericks and Ubuntu 14.04 on there now (upgraded them). Grub is on the disk bootloader (Still called MBR on GPT disks?)
Grub boots Ubuntu fine, but I can not get it to boot the Mac partition.

I have installed rEFInd to a USB thumbdrive. Booting off it detects both OSs. Selecting Ubuntu takes me to the grub menu and we boot find. Selecting to boot the Mac install, I get this error. "Unsupported while loading boot.efi"

http://i.imgur.com/6N1gXbm.png

I get this no matter which menu item I choose; all options are unsupported. It makes me feel there is another, underlying issue here. Maybe boot.efi is missing? I am not sure how to further troubleshoot this.

Any help appreciated.

https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/92a20f65/?limit=25#fb52

Use Clover instead. Clover is based on rEFInd, but for hacks...

 

[DaveQB]

Thanks. I am trying Clover now. It shows a Mac OS Icon to boot that, but that is all. There is no Ubuntu icon (assume I need to manually add that to the config somewhere?) and even selecting the Mac install eventually fails. When using the Multibeast (or was it UniBeast?) USB, I am using the -x PCIRootUID=0 argument to boot Mac OS successfully. So I may need to add that to the Clover options. I'd like to not need that if it is reducing performance (video rendering perhaps) of the Mac OS OS.

Any help appreciated.

 

[RehabMan]

Thanks. I am trying Clover now. It shows a Mac OS Icon to boot that, but that is all. There is no Ubuntu icon (assume I need to manually add that to the config somewhere?) and even selecting the Mac install eventually fails. When using the Multibeast (or was it UniBeast?) USB, I am using the -x PCIRootUID=0 argument to boot Mac OS successfully. So I may need to add that to the Clover options. I'd like to not need that if it is reducing performance (video rendering perhaps) of the Mac OS OS.

Any help appreciated, in fact I will throw some bitcoins someone's way if they can help me resolve this soon, this has been dragging on so long now.

Sounds as if you don't really have OS X configured correctly (using safe mode should be only temporary). With Clover, you'll need to research how to arrange config.plist for your hardware configuration.

I've successfully booted Ubuntu (installed Ubuntu in UEFI mode) from Clover.

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[DaveQB]

Thanks for the response RehabMan

Apologies for breaching rules. I have removed that.

I do think I need to do some work on the Mac install, but it is bootable, so I thought I would get the dual booting all working and then fine tune the Mac install to workout this SafeMode issue.

I have been searching and searching to find into on how to add a Linux distro to the config.plist file but I have nothing so far, which I am surprised as I thought it wouldn't be a too unusual use case for Clover.

I'll keep searching, any links appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Going Bald]

Thanks for the response RehabMan

Apologies for breaching rules. I have removed that.

I do think I need to do some work on the Mac install, but it is bootable, so I thought I would get the dual booting all working and then fine tune the Mac install to workout this SafeMode issue.

I have been searching and searching to find into on how to add a Linux distro to the config.plist file but I have nothing so far, which I am surprised as I thought it wouldn't be a too unusual use case for Clover.

I'll keep searching, any links appreciated.

Thanks.

Why are you trying to add a Linux distro to the config.plist? This is not required to boot Linux.
If Linux is on its own drive the Penguin will show up on the Clover icon select screen.

 

[DaveQB]

Going Bald,
Thanks for the response.

The Linux distro is not showing up. All I have is one icon on the Clover boot list.

See this image for what Clover is showing me. (I am running Clover from a small USB thumbdrive)

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopMk3592.png

If I select to see the motherboard's Boot Menu from the bootup, I see this:

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopVJ3592.png

I am amazed that the text 'ubuntu' shows up there. I think I have mentioned earlier, I have not kept up to date with UEFI and so from my BIOS experience, disks never have human names to them like this.

The actual disk's lay out is like this:

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopIx3592.png

The first disk there, the KINGSTON, is the 60 SSD where the different OSs are installed, as you can see. I did initially have a partition for Windows too, but the person who this is for decided not to bother as this all is taking me so long. The GENERIC 128MB USB has Clover and is what I am booting off to try and get a nice boot menu.

I hope that helps to paint a better picture of what I am working with and perhaps what my issue(s) are.

Thanks again for any help.

 

[Going Bald]

Going Bald,
Thanks for the response.

The Linux distro is not showing up. All I have is one icon on the Clover boot list.

See this image for what Clover is showing me. (I am running Clover from a small USB thumbdrive)

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopMk3592.png

What is shown in this pic is not Clover - it is Chimera with the TMX86 Black theme.

If I select to see the motherboard's Boot Menu from the bootup, I see this:

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopVJ3592.png

I am amazed that the text 'ubuntu' shows up there. I think I have mentioned earlier, I have not kept up to date with UEFI and so from my BIOS experience, disks never have human names to them like this.

I suspect it is because the Grub2 bootloader is not installed to the root of your Ubuntu partition. If you select it does the Ubuntu boot?

The actual disk's lay out is like this:

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopIx3592.png

The first disk there, the KINGSTON, is the 60 SSD where the different OSs are installed, as you can see. I did initially have a partition for Windows too, but the person who this is for decided not to bother as this all is taking me so long. The GENERIC 128MB USB has Clover and is what I am booting off to try and get a nice boot menu.

I hope that helps to paint a better picture of what I am working with and perhaps what my issue(s) are.

Thanks again for any help.

Create your Clover USB with this guide: http://www.tonymacx86.com/alternate-bootloaders/127134-test-drive-how-create-clover-usb.html

 

[DaveQB]

Going Bald,
Thanks for the response.

The Linux distro is not showing up. All I have is one icon on the Clover boot list.

See this image for what Clover is showing me. (I am running Clover from a small USB thumbdrive)

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopMk3592.png

What is shown in this pic is not Clover - it is Chimera with the TMX86 Black theme.

Oh really? How did I do that? I installed Clover from the Mac OS install. Interesting indeed.

If I select to see the motherboard's Boot Menu from the bootup, I see this:

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopVJ3592.png

I am amazed that the text 'ubuntu' shows up there. I think I have mentioned earlier, I have not kept up to date with UEFI and so from my BIOS experience, disks never have human names to them like this.

I suspect it is because the Grub2 bootloader is not installed to the root of your Ubuntu partition. If you select it does the Ubuntu boot?

Correct. Grub is installed at the root of the disk, not the Ubuntu partition. But selecting 'ubuntu' from the motherboards boot menu boots the Ubuntu install no problems.

The actual disk's lay out is like this:

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopIx3592.png

The first disk there, the KINGSTON, is the 60 SSD where the different OSs are installed, as you can see. I did initially have a partition for Windows too, but the person who this is for decided not to bother as this all is taking me so long. The GENERIC 128MB USB has Clover and is what I am booting off to try and get a nice boot menu.

I hope that helps to paint a better picture of what I am working with and perhaps what my issue(s) are.

Thanks again for any help.

Create your Clover USB with this guide: http://www.tonymacx86.com/alternate-bootloaders/127134-test-drive-how-create-clover-usb.html

I'll do that now. Thanks for the info.

 

[DaveQB]

The actual disk's lay out is like this:

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/12/plasma-desktopIx3592.png

The first disk there, the KINGSTON, is the 60 SSD where the different OSs are installed, as you can see. I did initially have a partition for Windows too, but the person who this is for decided not to bother as this all is taking me so long. The GENERIC 128MB USB has Clover and is what I am booting off to try and get a nice boot menu.

I hope that helps to paint a better picture of what I am working with and perhaps what my issue(s) are.

Thanks again for any help.

Create your Clover USB with this guide: http://www.tonymacx86.com/alternate-bootloaders/127134-test-drive-how-create-clover-usb.html

I am having trouble with this unfortunately. The installer doesn't match the how to for me; I don't have a Customise option.
See screenshot.

http://wstaw.org/m/2014/08/14/plasma-desktopll3532.png

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.