At some point, refind stopped booting up my Macbook, and I had to use the Option (read: Alt if you’re not drinking the koolaid) key on startup to get back into OS X. For which the drive was completely full. Some things I went through to get going again:
- deleted my partition table during a fit of aggressive frustration. That was useful! Fortunately I had gparted up and running when I did it, so with a litle math, I was able to rebuild the partition using sfdisk (also sgdisk and gdisk and … but sfdisk instructions here were clear).
- I need to boot my Macbook with no keyboard or mouse plugged in (I suspect the mouse was nonstandard and causing driver issues)
- Reinstall refind, and actually follow the instructions to put the boot driver in the specified place.
- Use [nouveau.noaccel=1] with ANY recent ubuntu on my Macbook to get past nvidia hardware lockup – follow these steps to get a real nvidia driver installed that won’t lock up:
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices # get list of drivers sudo apt-get install nvidia-### # choose ### from list
- Make the call and reinstall OSes as needed. Ubuntu was fairly painless to reinstall on top of existing install, now that I have great notes on setting it up, and I am getting pretty good at saving my configurations. Remember to keep config files pushed to repo as you change them!
Down to three OSes now, ubuntu, windows, OS X.
