Questions tagged [refit]

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Booting linux from usb using EFI

I need to use a USB drive as an installation media for my Mint and Ubuntu. For that I have unetbootin to make the usb bootable. But my PC only supports EFI boot (while adding the boot device, I need to provide an .efi file path etc). My question is…
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EFI boot to Linux on a MacBook Pro

8,3 MacBook Pro 2011, running Ubuntu 11.10 amd64. Here's the situation. Screen backlight and a few other things only work if booting in EFI, so I need to boot Ubuntu in EFI to get things working. If I hold down Alt while booting and start Linux…
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Debian boots on one Mac but not another

I'm trying to boot Debian from a USB Hard Drive (using rEFIt as a boot loader), and am successful on two newer-model MacBook Pros and a Hackintosh (no surprise there), but I'm not successful on several other Mac computers at my university. rEFIt…
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Dual boot Fedora 16 with OS X refit

Having trouble with installing Fedora 16 on my Macbook Pro. While the installation itself completes without and issues, the bootloader doesn't install correctly. I have rEFIt, which I already have installed from an earlier Ubuntu installation. So…
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Can't get rEFIt to boot after install (Ubuntu + OSX on macbook pro)

I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu and OSX on my macbook (MacBookPro8,2). As per the usual guide, I downloaded rEFIt (the .dmg) and installed it. Then I rebooted about 12 times and still always just get brought to the OSX login screen. I've never seen…
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Dual booting on a Macbook Pro 7,1.

I'm looking to install Linux on my Macbook Pro in a Dual Boot config. I've previously asked this question in a different fashion here: Dual Boot Fedora 16 with OS X rEFIt. However, it didn't really get much attention and seems to have fallen of the…
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Problems with Grub and rEFIt in Fedora

I used to run my Macbook in triple boot - Ubuntu, Fedora and Osx. When I turn the computer on, it goes to rEFIt menu and I could then choose between the OS's. Suddenly, it started to boot directly on Fedora's Grub menu. Now I can't boot in Osx or…
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