It kept reporting that the partition I created was ‘MSDOS’. In either case, I couldn’t get gparted/parted to change the partition type to linux (0x83 or 82 or whatever it is). Since I had problems with that on both occassions. I had even tried building a modified gptsync from source. ![]() Also I used rEFIt, which has a wobbly gptsync utility, that as far as I can tell, hosed my entire drive. I went with what I was reading online, to use a boot manager/loader. My first attempt-you know, the one where I left my backup drive at work, was a miserable failure from the get-go. Gentoo boots via EFI, I did not use a boot loader (in the traditional sense). What I have in the end is a MacBook Pro that dual boots Gentoo Linux and OS X using rEFInd. I only had to reinstall OS X once after a wonky partition editor…. ![]() I suppose it actually wasn’t that bad, it could have been much worse. I (finally) managed to get Gentoo booting on a new MacBook Pro (15", Core i7, mid-2012) alongside OS X 10.8.2. If your sick of your brand new MacBook just working (more or less), and you just feel like modifying your kernel’s source to get your computer to work right, you’ve come to the right place.
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