jhfere.blogg.se - Making a refind boot manager mac

it correctly detected that the USB was Legacy-bootable, but when launched it issued a message basically saying "The firmware cannot launch external drive in Legacy mode". In that case, refind provided an option for Legacy boot, i.e. I had the case of a 2004 MacBook which would not. Legacy boot on an external drive normally works on recent machines. (Mind you, I'm not sure about this for the very latest Macs, they might be EFI-only as this seems to be the direction of the industry). That's how their software "Boot camp" works to dual-boot with windows. not the ancient powerPC line), the Apple firmware can boot an internal drive in Legacy mode. Refind can load a system in Legacy/BIOS mode if the firmware can. The question was answered by pbear, let me just add my two cents. Thanks for the links, read over both a couple of times, each may require a couple more reads! In any case I'm not doing any thing until I get the new Time Machine backup drive. Can the EFI partition be fixed with Boot Repair or other method or is it better do a complete reinstall? usb drive that use to boot on the mac but it will no longer boot so I guess the EFI partition may be trashed. As I was planning of installing rEFInd on the Mac anyway I started thinking if rEFind would allow the Mac to boot to one of the BIOS drives I'd just use it that way for awhile instead of going through the EFI reinstall.

usb drives w/cinnamon installed but they are all BIOS. Right, as I'd mentioned I have a few ext. Probably would make more sense to convert the external drives, though, or make them hybrid boot. See this how-to at the website, also here. MajorGeeks mirrors are the bootable flash drive files for Windows, Linux, and macOS.You want to know whether rEFInd can boot a BIOS/MBR system, right? Skipping over whether this is a good plan, the answer is yes.

Includes EFI drivers for ext2/3fs, ext4fs, ReiserFS, Btrfs, HFS+, NTFS, and ISO-9660.

Secure Boot support (requires separate shim or PreLoader program).

Try before installation via a CD-R or USB flash drive image.

Reboot into the firmware setup utility (on some UEFIs).

Launch EFI programs such as an EFI shell (available from third parties).

Maintenance-free Linux kernel updates - boot-time auto-detection means that no configuration file changes are needed after a kernel update.

Directly launch Linux 3.3.0 and later kernels with EFI stub loader support.

Auto-detection of available EFI boot loaders.

Support for EFI 1.x and UEFI 2.x computers.

rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the boot loader search process, and allows users to define their boot loader entries.

Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders, and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options. REFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager.