zapped boot info

blind Pete 0123peter at gmail.com
Mon May 19 07:15:20 UTC 2014


Wes James wrote:

> Well, after several days of frustration, I finally decided to just install
> xubuntu on disk 3 (the installer chose this) of the 4 disks on a mac pro.
> I went through the installation and then ran install.sh from rEFInd on the
> mac side and I can now boot in to osx, windows, and the old xubuntu and
> the
> new xubuntu.  There really is not process to run just like whatever the
> installer ran - pick a disk (in my case /dev/sdc) and set up the grub and
> whatever boot partition setup needs to be done and be done with it?  Lot's
> of googling and trying things did nothing.  rEFInd would show the three
> icons for each OS, but when linux was selected, it would boot in to
> windows.  So where is this boot setup that ubuntu uses during install?  Is
> it available as a stand alone utility/precedure?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -wes

I'm really just guessing, but there might have been something about 
rEFInd's configuration.  From the mac side of things look for something 
called /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf

It is possible to install rEFInd from the Linux side as well, BUT 
things could get very confusing if you do that.  

-- 
blind Pete
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