#2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 INSTALL PROBLEMS MAC OS X#
#2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 INSTALL PROBLEMS INSTALL#
#2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 INSTALL PROBLEMS MAC#

#2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 INSTALL PROBLEMS INSTALL#

My old arch install also had GRUB installed on /dev/sda3 (my root/boot partition). When you get to the Install bootloader section choose to install it on the /boot partition, since the wiki and the installer specify this. Then I had to install GRUB manually by booting the live CD and chrooting into the new install.Ĥ. I made the mistake to re-create the filesystem and had to resync the partition table with rEFIT. When you are in the 'prepare hard drive' section make sure to only choose the mount points. Then you have to reboot and have rEFIT to fix the partition table or you won't be able to install GRUB on the installation process.ģ. You can create them with parted or any other app, and create the filesystem while creating the partitions. Booted from Arch CD (32 bit), then I created two partitions, root and home, I have 3 GB of ram so didn't care about a swap partition.

Altough the first time I installed arch I just had to make some room so that bootcamp could create the partition, but again, making a new install is not necessary.Ģ. This is not necessary, but I wanted to do it because the old installation was all bloated. I reinstalled Arch in my MacBook (not Pro/mid 2007) a few days back.ġ.

#2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 INSTALL PROBLEMS MAC#

This handles all mac specific stuff, like hot keys and the keyboard lights for caps lock. Once you're done installing and getting everything right. Make sure to carefully read all of the NVIDIA related information, it can get a bit confusing. Then the installation pretty much follows as in the beginner's installation guide.

#2010 MACBOOK PRO 13 INSTALL PROBLEMS MAC OS X#

Be very careful not to overwrite the TWO mac partitions (one is efi, the other has all the Mac OS X stuff). You'll have to define their sizes manually, you should write down what you do, (the size and which partition. The Mac partition scheme limits how many partitions you can create, so I think two of my partitions are logical. You'll have to think ahead here, I have four partitions, root, home, boot, and swap. Run help once in parted and you should be able to figure out where to go from there. I don't exactly remember what I did, but I know at some point you have to run 'parted', and you must manually partition your hard drive. (After everything is done, if you want to change the default OS to linux, from Mac edit the file /efi/refit/nf and uncomment the line '#legacyfirst' This lets to choose on boot up which OS you want to go into first.

Next, using Disk Utility, I partitioned my hard drive, it doesn't really matter what type of partition you do, because you're going to be erasing it later anyway, just note how big you made it.

Although I'm not sure that this is completely necessary, for some reason I wasn't able to do it without this step. I have Arch running fine on an older generation Macbook Pro, its a pretty laborious process.įirst, I did a clean install of Mac OS.

2010 macbook pro 13 install problems