ScottishCaptain
22nd February 2007, 05:17 AM
Greetings to all.
Here's my setup. A Mini Mac (80GB disk), with the following partitions. The partition map is MBR, no GPT or Mac OS X here.
/dev/sda1 (FAT32, type EF) - EFI Boot Partition (rEFIt)
/dev/sda2 (Linux EXT3) - /boot for Fedora Core 6
/dev/sda3 - Physical Volume for LVM (FC6+Swap)
I installed rEFIt with the Mac OS X installer disk (terminal.app) and blessed it. Yes, it boots off a MBR/FAT32 partition just fine. I think once EFI is pointing at the file and disk partition, it doesn't really care about the details.
rEFIt shows my Linux partition as, well a pengiun from the /boot partition. But there's also a "Bootcamp" icon (apparently to boot nothing) that defaults as the first item. This poses a slight issue if I'm rebooting remotely.
Trying to boot the phantom partition yeilds a "This is not a bootable disk" error and a black screen.
I'm assuming that it's trying to boot the FAT32 partition that rEFIt is sitting on, and or detecting that this is a partition that might be bootable.
Is there any way to ether modify the partition so rEFIt doesn't think it's bootable (thus removing it from the menu), or stop rEFIt from including it as a bootable item?
Otherwise, the Linux item fires up FC6 like a dream. Everything works, it's just the additional item for presumably the FAT32 partition (the obvious solution for rEFIt would be to check the partition type, if it's EF, then it wouldn't put it in the menu).
Cheers!
-SC
Here's my setup. A Mini Mac (80GB disk), with the following partitions. The partition map is MBR, no GPT or Mac OS X here.
/dev/sda1 (FAT32, type EF) - EFI Boot Partition (rEFIt)
/dev/sda2 (Linux EXT3) - /boot for Fedora Core 6
/dev/sda3 - Physical Volume for LVM (FC6+Swap)
I installed rEFIt with the Mac OS X installer disk (terminal.app) and blessed it. Yes, it boots off a MBR/FAT32 partition just fine. I think once EFI is pointing at the file and disk partition, it doesn't really care about the details.
rEFIt shows my Linux partition as, well a pengiun from the /boot partition. But there's also a "Bootcamp" icon (apparently to boot nothing) that defaults as the first item. This poses a slight issue if I'm rebooting remotely.
Trying to boot the phantom partition yeilds a "This is not a bootable disk" error and a black screen.
I'm assuming that it's trying to boot the FAT32 partition that rEFIt is sitting on, and or detecting that this is a partition that might be bootable.
Is there any way to ether modify the partition so rEFIt doesn't think it's bootable (thus removing it from the menu), or stop rEFIt from including it as a bootable item?
Otherwise, the Linux item fires up FC6 like a dream. Everything works, it's just the additional item for presumably the FAT32 partition (the obvious solution for rEFIt would be to check the partition type, if it's EF, then it wouldn't put it in the menu).
Cheers!
-SC