Has anyone else using rEfit to dual boot Linux and Leopard noticed that
this configuration breaks the ability to do an Archive and Install from the
Leopard installer DVD? I find that when I launch the Leopard installer, it
reports that I must select an option to install on my MacBook Pro drive.
However the only option it offers is to reformat the drive.
I believe this may be due to the fact that my drive now shows two EFI
partitions from 'diskutil list'...
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *186.3 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 134.9 Gi disk0s2
3: EFI 1000.0 Mi disk0s3
4: Linux Swap 2.0 Gi disk0s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data 48.3 Gi disk0s5
The disk0s3 partition is the /boot partition which has the grub boot loader
installed on it. If I use the partition tool in the rEfit window, it reports both
the gpt and mbr partition lists. In the gpt list this disk0s3 partition appears
as EFI whereas in the mbr list it appears as a Linux partition.
I installed Fedora 9 x86_64 on this machine with the following procedure...
1) Used the Boot Camp Assistant to resize the Leopard partition and create
a 50 GB partition for Windows.
2) Rebooted in the Fedora 9 x86_64 installer DVD and deleted the Windows
partition that the Boot Camp assistant created.
3) In anaconda, I created three partitions using this available space. The first
a 1Gb ext3 partition for /boot, the second a 2GB swap partition and the third
a / partition for linux as ext3.
4) Installed Fedora 9 taking the default of installing the boot loader in the /boot
partition.
5) Rebooted under Leopard and installed rEfit.
This configuration works fine except that the Leopard installer can no longer
select the Leopard partition on the drive. Is it expected that the /boot partition
will show up as a EFI partition? If not, is there a way to fix this under Linux
or Leopard?