macbook, no boot? [SOLVED]

7santiago · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2010 Posts: 2

Im back to gentoo after a few years of having been an ubuntu user.

Im using a macbook pro, I followed the gentoo handbook install, but my system wont boot.

I installed grub on boot partition not the mbr (sda2, because sda1 is some bazaar EFI thing... whatever that means... im kinda scared to delete it)
The boot partition is the only one that is flagged for booting

What am I doing wrong?

DONAHUE · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject:

you need to do a chainloader entry in the efi/refit bootloader. google should help.

7santiago · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2010 Posts: 2

This is solved:

thank you for your suggestion.

For those in the future who may have this problem:

I did not install refit.
I did not delete the efi partition.
I followed the gentoo handbook install and used grub.
I used genkernel
I installed grub on the /boot partition.
The /boot partition was the only one that was flagged boot
This did not boot normally. I burned the iso cd available in refit's website
I booted onto the cd. I went into its partition editor. I was imediately prompted with something that asked me what my partition table was. I said yes to the y/n question.
I exited. I removed the cd.
The next time gentoo booted.
I think that the refit cd wrote to the efi thing.