On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Keith Keller < kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
On 2013-11-05, Wes James comptekki@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:14 PM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@sfu.ca
wrote:
To boot off of a 3TB disk you require a (U)EFI capable machine which supports GPT partitions. There is no way to boot a disk that is 3TB in size using a BIOS based machine.
It boots fine with os x 10.6.3.
OS X is already aware of UEFI and GPT, so it makes perfect sense that it'd boot correctly on its own hardware. You may wish to consider using a tool like rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) or rEFInd (http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#installsh) to help manage booting linux on your Mac.
--keith
I did install refit. I use it all the time with dual boot macs (os x/windows) in a student lab I have configured. I installed refit and enabled it (ran enable.sh in /efi/refit), but for some reason refit does not even show up when booting. I pressed alt, to check what I could boot from, but if I select the "Windows" partition to boot from (windows always shows there with any other os to boot from), it starts booting, then ends up with a blinking cursor at the top left.
-wes