Once achieved then we can go back into OS X and edit the nf file to remove the extra garbage entries from the rEFInd menu:ġ. Now shut down completely, boot up and see if you have "boot/efi/EFI/OpenSUSE/grub.efi" listed. Now copy the contents of the boot/grub2 folder into your new openSUSE folder. Here we create the folder structure used earlier in our nf file: efi/EFI/openSUSE. Once logged in, launch the File Manager and choose the red Root folder on the left. look for "vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop" (with a hard drive icon displayed under it, NOT a CD icon) and click on that to boot openSUSE. Once rEFInd is functioning, you may see quite a few linux choices displayed.
If you do reinstall it, just copy the entire refind folder to the desktop prior, then you can copy the custom files back into the fresh rEFInd install if necessary. that has been my experience on several occasions.
Post installation you may have to reboot 1 or 2 times prior to rEFInd picking up and/or reinstall rEFInd from OS X. The entire installation should go to the / partition.including grub2 and you can verify all on the "installation settings" page which shows you the details prior to you clicking "install." Just make certain you don't touch your OS X partitions prior to moving forward Your partitions should be on sda3 or higher, not on sda1 or sda2 as those should be your OS X volumes. From the partitioning editor, I created a 2GB swap partition and a 30 GB " / " (root) partition. I then chose to edit the partitions button at the bottom of the window. I unchecked the "Propose separate home partition, as I store personal data on an external HD. I burned the 64bit open SUSE installation DVD and booted directly into it by holding down the "C" key during a restart From there the openSUSE install is very typical, with the main modification being my change during the partitioning session. "Scan for Linux kernels that lack a ".efi" filename extension" section: remove # from before "scan_all_linux_kernels" "When scanning volumes for EFI boot loader" section add: also_scan_dirs boot/efi/EFI/openSUSEģ. Under "types of bootloaders to search" section add: scanfor internal,hdbios,external,biosexternal,optical,cd,manualĢ. With text edit add these lines (with no # in beginning of line) to the efi/refind/nf file:ġ.
my choice was ext4) into efi/refind/drivers_圆4 folder on your OS X volume If you can't locate the drivers already on your Mac, then mount the rEFInd ISO and copy what you need from there.
Very brief version: If using rEFInd, copy the ext4_圆4.efi driver (or other driver matching the file system format choice for the openSUSE partition. Also, you can get current updates and communicate with the author if necessary, which is not possible with rEFIt as it's no longer supported by the creator. I have found it to be much more versatile and compatible with a variety of multiboot linux installations on my iMac. What is the reason for the DVD partition? Also, I would suggest using rEFInd in place of rEFIt. If you are still having trouble, please reply and I'll do my best to assist.įor Cesar: I am confused about the method you chose for partitioning. I'm running OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Studio 12.10 and openSUSE 12.3 on my iMac 8,1 along with rEFInd as my boot manager.
Is there anything I can do to be able to boot into the openSUSE install media? Has anyone had success on a Mac Pro? In this case all I get is option 3 in the boot menu (the legacy one) and it does not work either. The third option results in:Īt which point the system becomes unresponsive.Īlthough I know this is a 64bit system I also tried the 32bit version of openSUSE.
The first two options result in: "Error: Unsupported while loading boot圆4.efi/grub.efi" right after it says "Using load options ' '". I installed rEFInd and have multiple boot choices: Neither the DVD nor KDE LiveCD nor NetworkInstall will boot (same result if they were dd'ed onto a USB or burned on a DVD/CD). Specs: 2 x 3 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon running OSX 10.5.8. I'm trying to setup openSUSE 12.3 on a Mac Pro.