Ubuntu will not boot from rEFit

**smartaggie2010** · December 10th, 2008

I own a macbook pro (Fourth generation) and I triple boot Microsoft XP, Leopard, and Ubuntu 8.10. I have installed rEFit to boot these and when I hold down "alt" at start up I have no trouble finding the option to select "boot Ubuntu from hard drive" but whenever I do it shows the penguin on a white screen then turns to a black screen with just a blinking "_" in the top left corner.

Here is the report Partition Inspector gave me if it's any help.

*** Report for internal hard disk ***

Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 413024295 Mac OS X HFS+
3 413286440 444743719 Basic Data
4 445005864 488397127 Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
# A Start LBA End LBA Type
1 1 488397167 ee EFI Protective

MBR contents:
Boot Code: None

Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 413286440:
Boot Code: GRUB
File System: ext3
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data

Partition at LBA 445005864:
Boot Code: Windows NTLDR
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data

**pxwpxw** · December 10th, 2008

smartaggie2010

Partition Inspector report for the MBR shows that you need to run the rEFIt Partitioning Tool (from the rEFIt menu) to restore your MBR partition info.
This should get ubuntu booting.

**cyberdork33** · December 11th, 2008

also, if you are holding 'alt' on startup, you are bypassing rEFIt. rEFIt should appear automatically without holding any keys if it is properly installed.