{"id":1922,"date":"2016-02-25T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2016-02-26T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T23:17:54","slug":"macbook-pro-5-2-multiboot-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2016\/macbook-pro-5-2-multiboot-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Macbook Pro 5.2 multiboot fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, refind stopped booting up my Macbook, and I had to use the Option (read: Alt if you&#8217;re not drinking the koolaid) key on startup to get back into OS X. \u00a0For which the drive was completely full. \u00a0Some things I went through to get going again:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>deleted my partition table during a fit of aggressive frustration. \u00a0That was useful! \u00a0Fortunately 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 &#8230; but sfdisk instructions <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=1192598\">here<\/a> were clear).<\/li>\n<li>I need to boot my Macbook with no keyboard or mouse plugged in (I suspect the mouse was nonstandard and causing driver issues)<\/li>\n<li>Reinstall refind, and actually follow the instructions to put the boot driver in the specified place.<\/li>\n<li>Use [nouveau.noaccel=1] with ANY recent ubuntu on my Macbook to get past nvidia hardware lockup &#8211; follow these steps to get a real nvidia driver installed that won&#8217;t lock up:\n<pre> sudo ubuntu-drivers devices      # get list of drivers\r\n sudo apt-get install nvidia-###  # choose ### from list<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Make the call and reinstall OSes as needed. \u00a0Ubuntu 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. \u00a0Remember to keep config files pushed to repo as you change them!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Down to three OSes now, ubuntu, windows, OS X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, refind stopped booting up my Macbook, and I had to use the Option (read: Alt if you&#8217;re not drinking the koolaid) key on startup to get back into OS X. \u00a0For which the drive was completely full. \u00a0Some things I went through to get going again: deleted my partition table during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[141,215,201],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools","tag-macbook-pro","tag-multi-boot","tag-refind"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-v0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}