Am 05.11.2013 um 05:41 schrieb Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com>: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Keith Keller < > kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > >> On 2013-11-05, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:14 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> >> wrote: >>> >>> 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. the osx partition has in this case two boot options, osx and refit. You have to tell the firmware what to boot. bless --folder /efi/refit --file /efi/refit/refit.efi --labelfile /efi/refit/refit.vollabel --setBoot to revert it bless --folder /System/Library/CoreServices --file /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi --setBoot from within refit centos can be booted ... -- LF