Hardy 64 bit install fails with macbk pro and refit

**suchawato** · May 2nd, 2008

so i installed, everything went fine,
Dual boot.
OS X works fine,
Refit however seems weird,
I ran the refit partition tool after reboot after the instal,
it just gives me this little faded linux pinguin and does not boot.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Sara

**suchawato** · May 2nd, 2008

Ha!
So this is interesting,
When I reboot holding down alt, it lets me select either refit or "windows".

Windows is actually ubuntu, although I don't know how to alter this or have the refit boot menu load ubuntu, but it does seem to work if I do this method.
Awesome that's a start, though
I still need to fix this.
-Sara

**sunbird** · May 2nd, 2008

Hi, there are several posts on this topic in this forum. I think you may want to look at this post as well as this one. There may be others too. Just look around for "no bootable device" errors.

**cyberdork33** · May 2nd, 2008

Originally Posted by suchawato

Ha!
So this is interesting,
When I reboot holding down alt, it lets me select either refit or "windows".

Windows is actually ubuntu, although I don't know how to alter this or have the refit boot menu load ubuntu, but it does seem to work if I do this method.
Awesome that's a start, though
I still need to fix this.
-Sara

there is a bug in refit with this last release. It is required to use the partition tool once, but you will have to hold ALT to choose Ubuntu until there is a fix found.