rEFIt sees ubuntu as "legacy os"

**firemoth** · October 23rd, 2009

Hey guys,

Maybe somebody can help me with this strange issue. I set up a triple boot with Snow Leopard, Windows 7 Pro, and Karmic. Here are my partitions:

Code:

nick@Macbook:~$ sudo fdisk -l

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd89d2429

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          26      204819+  ee  GPT
/dev/sda2              26       24428   196007520   af  HFS / HFS+
/dev/sda3           24444       31679    58113024    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4   *       31679       38914    58114048   83  Linux

I followed what most guides said and installed grub to /dev/sda4. Everything's fine...rEFIt gives me 3 options...boot Mac OSX, boot Windows, and boot Legacy OS. The OSX and Windows options boot directly and perfectly. When I choose "Legacy OS," grub starts and I can choose Ubuntu. My question is why won't rEFIt see Linux as Linux?

**maflynn** · October 23rd, 2009

I saw that too. rEFIt probably needs to be updated to see that 9.10 is Ubuntu/Linux.

Personally, I'm not really bothered by the representation as long as it boots up, and for me it does

**Bachstelze** · October 23rd, 2009

Originally Posted by firemoth

My question is why won't rEFIt see Linux as Linux?

Because it doesn't (yet) recogize GRUB 2 (basically, rEFIT thinks that "a Linux system is a system with GRUB O.97). So if you want your Karmic to appear as Linux, you'll have to install GRUB 0.97 on it, or wait for a rEFIt update that will recognize GRUB 2 as "Linux".

**Eadz** · October 24th, 2009

This is the bug tracker entry for the item.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func...17&atid=821764

**mabovo** · October 24th, 2009

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=1#post8155026

**macaholic** · October 26th, 2009

Personally I've never had rEFIt recognize any of my partitions as linux, they are always listed as legacy OS. I just hold down alt when i'm booting now, it seems to load faster than rEFIt. Apple's bootloader recognizes all my windows partitions as "Windows".