Razorhog Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I've got a 100gb bootcamp partition with Windows 7 64-bit installed. I recently upgraded my 2010 iMac to a 2012 iMac. Specs: 27" Core i5, 768gb SSD. I was using rEFIt on the old one just fine. rEFIt is installed on the Macintosh HD, not EFI. On the new machine, it takes upwards of 2 minutes for the refit menu to appear. First I tried a repair permissions on the Mac HD. Then I did some googling and read about "blessing" the partition that refit was installed. I tried that, but now the refit menu doesn't come up at all. It does the same ~2 minute pause and then automatically boots to Windows or OS X (depending on which one I choose in the bootcamp manager before rebooting). If I do a diskutil list in terminal, I get the following: /dev/disk0 0: GUID_partition_scheme 751.3 GB 1: EFI 209.7 MB 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 649.0 GB 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB 4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 101.4 GB I have a feeling that something USB is causing the slowdown, but I need to at least get rEFIt back to working status before I test that theory. Does anyone have suggestions? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285548-help-with-refit/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razorhog Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 Found this other thread, http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199614-refit-reinstall-problem/page__hl__refit#entry1358281 It has a post by ludacrisvp that I will try next: this is most likely caused by using the bootcamp selector from inside windows to reboot into osx, or from inside osx using the utility that chooses your boot device.simple solution: Never use the 2 methods above to reboot your system into the other OS unless you want to break rEFIt. Always use Start --> shutdown/restart/hibernate/sleep whichever you need or Apple menu --> shutdown/restart/sleep. To fix your rEFIt just go to the drive you installed it to (most likely Macintosh HD) and open the EFI folder and open the rEFIt folder and look for "enable-always.sh" now open Terminal and drag and drop "enable-always.sh" into Terminal Terminal will need your root password, enter it then reboot and you will see rEFIt. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285548-help-with-refit/#findComment-1879344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razorhog Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 The instructions I provided in the post above fixed the issue of refit not showing up. I then discovered that the delay was only happening when my external hard drive is plugged in. I guess something is wrong with it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285548-help-with-refit/#findComment-1879377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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