Craig Ruff Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 I used parted to partition the disk (1 = EFI, 2 = OS X, 3 = Linux, 4 = Linux swap), then installed the MacBook firmware update. I proceeded to install Suse 10 on my MacBook without any problems, except for installing a boot loader. The install of grub complained about not being able to find the partition (hd0,2). So I decided to try and use lilo. I booted off the CD in rescue mode and constructed this /etc/lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/sda3 ignore-table prompt timeout=50 default=Linux lba32 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only root=/dev/sda3 initrd=/boot/initrd vga=ask append="selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda4 splash=verbose showopts" Running /sbin/lilo gave some complaints: Warning: partition 3 on /dev/sda is not marked Active. Warning: partition type 0x00 on device 0x0803 is a dangerous place for a boot sector. I assume this is because I only have a GPT, with the compatibility MBR containing single GPT partition. Rebooting using rEFIt 0.6 shows both the OS X and Linux paritions as boot candidates, but when I select Linux, the screen briefly flashes and then says: No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key. At that point the text cursor flashes rapidly, but the system does nothing if any keys are pressed. Have to power off to regain control. Any hints to getting either grub or lilo to work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16005-double-booting-suse-lilo-or-grub-install-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christoph Pfisterer Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 LILO and GRUB both only know about the MBR partition table. From the messages it appears you only have a GPT partition table on the disk. I'm afraid the only tool that can create the required hybrid MBR/GPT format is diskutil in Mac OS X. In your case, the procedure would look like this: Partition the hard disk with a single HFS+ partition. Install Mac OS X in that partition and update it to 10.4.6. Run diskutil to shrink the HFS+ partiton and create the Linux partitions. Install Linux. If you want to install just Mac OS X and Linux, not Windows, you can put LILO in the MBR (boot=/dev/sda). Otherwise, you'll need to put some standard chainloading code in the MBR that loads the boot sector of the active partition. (Windows does this automatically, but since most modern Linux distros just install GRUB in the MBR by default, that has been neglected a bit in the Linux camp.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16005-double-booting-suse-lilo-or-grub-install-problems/#findComment-102794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ruff Posted April 25, 2006 Author Share Posted April 25, 2006 I managed to get the MBR partitions created using sfdisk like so: sfdisk -d /dev/sda > sda.orig cp sda.orig sda.new vi sda.new # edit the table to match the sector start/length printed by parted sfdisk -f /dev/sda < sda.new Then rEFIt will start lilo either in the MBR of sda or in the first block of sda3. The Suse 10 install is continuing, but in text mode at the moment. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16005-double-booting-suse-lilo-or-grub-install-problems/#findComment-102905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agray Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I posted a new topic in the forum. It explains how to do what your are trying to make work. Adam Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16005-double-booting-suse-lilo-or-grub-install-problems/#findComment-105231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambios Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I have succes with the chain0 loader under / of the linux partition. I call it from grub and it works always. It makes me pain of head until i discover how. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16005-double-booting-suse-lilo-or-grub-install-problems/#findComment-105309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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