jaboutboul Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Hey All, I just got one of the new MacBook Pros and I'm trying to get Linux + OS X Dual boot running on it. I downloaded rEFIt, installed and installed boot camp, created the partition and rebooted just to check and make sure everyhing was kosher and I got the whote screen with the blinking folder. I've since booted from the OS X cd and selected the right startup volume and removed rEFIt for the time being. What's the deal though? Did I do something wrong? Did Apple change something on the new MBPs? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkevinli Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 A lot of us are having the same issue. If you go to the rEFIt home page and click on the bug report section , youll see a post with about 10 replies of people having the same problem including myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christoph Pfisterer Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Well, I'm aware of the problem, but without access to one of the new machines it's hard for me to do much about it. :-( Apple could have changed any of a number of things, including making the EFI environment 64-bit native, or even putting AppleTV-style restrictions in place. If anyone has any hints which EFI spec version and which binary formats the new machines support, that would be greatly appreciated. Other bits that might be useful are the output of 'nvram -p' and 'bless --info' in a clean state, and maybe a copy of /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi (or whatever else is listed as the boot loader by bless --info). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboutboul Posted June 10, 2007 Author Share Posted June 10, 2007 nvram -p is: yeahyeah:~ jack$ nvram -p boot-image %02%01%0c%d0A%03%0a%01%01%06%02%1f%03%12%0a%04%01*%02(@%06@%0cy4%b2z#[vE%83%b0%0c%df%84%1cQ4%02%02%04%04%184c1973000%7f%ff%04 efi-boot-device-data %02%01%0c%d0A%03%0a%01%01%06%02%1f%03%12%0a%04%01*%02(@%06@%0cy4%b2z#[vE%83%b0%0c%df%84%1cQ4%02%02%7f%ff%04 SystemAudioVolume / efi-boot-device <array ID="0"><dict ID="1"><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string ID="2">disk0s2</string><key>IOMatch</key><dict ID="3"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="4">IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict ID="5"><key>UUID</key><string ID="6">7AB23479-5B23-4576-83B0-0CDF841C5134</string></dict></dict></dict></array> bless --info is: yeahyeah:~ jack$ bless --info finderinfo[0]: 3192 => Blessed System Folder is /System/Library/CoreServices finderinfo[1]: 353393 => Blessed System File is /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty finderinfo[3]: 0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder finderinfo[4]: 0 => Unused field unset finderinfo[5]: 3192 => OS X blessed folder is /System/Library/CoreServices 64-bit VSDB volume id: 0x90044C07A0F43053 I can send you the boot.efi if you would kindly send me an email address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christoph Pfisterer Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 For anyone following this, I think I have a fix, and an experimental build with fat 32/64 bit binaries can be downloaded for testing at http://refit.sourceforge.net/files/refit-b...20070612.tar.gz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaboutboul Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 There is an updated build for people to try: http://refit.sourceforge.net/files/refit-b...070612-2.tar.gz . There are still bugs being worked out, but things work for the most part. There is also a #refit now on irc.freenode.net if anyone cares to join. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christoph Pfisterer Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 I just released rEFIt 0.10 with all the fixes. Grab it at http://refit.sourceforge.net/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkevinli Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Thanks for your hard work Chris !!! I just released rEFIt 0.10 with all the fixes. Grab it at http://refit.sourceforge.net/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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