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🏩 How-to: Install elementaryOS and macOS on a Mac
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Loki install not showing up in rEFInd... #45

Open estevanrll opened 6 years ago

estevanrll commented 6 years ago

installed elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki alongside mac OS 10.13 on a MacBook Air (MacBookAir4,1) using your instructions, but can't get the Loki install to show up in rEFInd... what am i doing wrong?

estevanrll commented 6 years ago

sorry... rEFInd install is 0.11.2

sdaitzman commented 6 years ago

@estevanrll can you tell us exactly what you did, in order? Could you also open up Terminal.app in macOS and run $ ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | sed -n '/firmware\-abi/s/.*"\([^"]*\)".*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1: \2/p' for me by pasting that exactly as-is, without the dollar sign at the front, and pressing enter? Let us know what it returns. I've taken this from a StackExchange answer and it should tell us if your laptop has 32- or 64-bit EFI firmware.

Waynekosimoto commented 6 years ago

I have EFI64

I closed one issue to jump on another. sigh*. I'm having the same problem. I installed refind before I installed Elementary OS. On refind I did try elementary os. Went to the terminal did ubiquity -b like normal. Went to the partition part, even though I thought I had partitioned the hard drive it said that it was still one main partition and a couple smaller ones. I tried partitioning it from the installer. It didn't do anything so I stopped the installation. I went to the formatting app inside the applications menu. I resized it there. Then went back into the installer doing ubiquity -b again. Partitioned the free space as it told. It gave me like 3 popups after I partitioned everything. It began to install. When it was almost done the screen went black with my cursor blinking and a terminal underscore flashing near the top left. I clicked the power button and it said remove medium and press enter. I took out the disk and pressed enter. It rebooted into the refind menu. Only mac was there.

Waynekosimoto commented 6 years ago

My diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            390.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         108.8 GB   disk0s4
Waynekosimoto commented 6 years ago

Can you please respond, I really wanted to try out Loki.

Waynekosimoto commented 6 years ago

I solved this by not adding -b