I have gotten as far as being able to boot into Centos the same way as the form I liked to above, but I also have the same error stating "missing operating system."ĭoes anyone know if I can use the same method as stated on the other site (and quoted below) WITHOUT deleting my Mac partition? My goal is to dual boot Mac OS 10.5 and Centos 5. How do I boot into Centos on my MacBook, and can I use Boot Camp like I did with Windows to keep my Mac partition bootable and safe along side Linux?
This method also seems to delete my Mac partition and I am unsure if it will work if I just add the new partition instead of deleting the old one.
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They recommend manually partitioning for the "Master Boot Record" but when I try to partition from my Mac install disc, the smallest size it allows me is 1 GB when all I want is a 100 MB.
I have found this old forum with a similar problem. I have tried rEFIt but it has the same problem as Boot Camp, it didn't seem to see the Centos bootable partition, only the Mac side. I thought I successfully installed Centos because the installer continued after I partitioned the drive (instead of saying the partition was too small - it did this before I created and deleted the 12 GB Windows partition) and after cranking through the installation progress bar it said something along the lines of "Installation complete - restart computer". I thought that there was supposed to be three partitions, one of them a /boot/ partition (which might be part of the problem.). One partition was 12 GB (I am assuming this is the root partition) and the other was 200 MB (I am assuming this is the swap). I then created a new windows partition with Boot Camp Assistant of the size I wanted for Centos and deleted this new FAT partition from the Centos install disk which created two partitions from the free space. I selected "Create default partition from free space" but the partitioning agent didn't see the free space inside my Mac partition (which took up the whole drive) but the free space on the drive (the space free of any partitions). I then booted the install disc and tried to create a new partition and install Centos. At this point I had one ~150 GB partition on the drive which was the Mac OS. I'm pretty sure Centos installed a GRUB boot loader, but when I hold option down on startup the only option is my Mac drive (I deleted the Windows partition to install the Linux side).īefore I installed Centos, I removed the Windows partition with XP on it and zeroed out all my free space. Previously, I used Boot Camp to dual boot into Windows XP.
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I have successfully installed Centos on my MacBook, but now I can't figure out how to boot into it.
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