Introduction

If you want to have Ubuntu alongside your Mac OS X on the same hard drive and be able to choose which OS to launch at boot time, then this article is for you.

Setup

Here are the steps:

  • Install Mac OS X
  • Install Refit and enable it:
  sudo /efi/refit/enable-always.sh
  • Once completed, launch Boot Camp and decide how much space you want to allocate
  • Reboot from the Ubuntu CD
  • Install Ubuntu
  • When Ubuntu reboots, go back to Mac OS X (as it’s impossible to boot Ubuntu for now)
  • Reinstall Refit over the existing installation, then enable it again:
  sudo /efi/refit/enable-always.sh
  • Now you can reboot to boot into Ubuntu :-)
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Last updated 05 Oct 2008, 09:07 CEST. history