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Episode: 437
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Title: HPR0437: refit
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0437/hpr0437.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 20:31:55
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This is Skirlett broadcasting and podcasting from the top of the world famous Hawaiian Space
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Needle Tower in lovely mystical Hawaii under a brilliant, brilliant, dare I say full moon
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sky. This is Hacker Public Radio, word the internet massive. I'm Skirlett co-host of the podcast
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Fedora Reloaded and so obviously I run a lot of Fedora myself. I actually have two computers,
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one that boots only exclusively into Fedora, but for classes and for a lot of my work as a
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web and graphics designer I use Mac OSX. For a while I just used two computers, one booting into
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Fedora 10 and one booting into Mac OSX. But lately I've been wanting to have both operating systems
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on the same machine without having to lug around to laptops that got old. So the answer was to
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dual boot Mac OSX and Fedora on the same laptop and how does she do this? Well in any brand of
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computer but Apple you install grub and when you start the computer you'd get a menu that lets
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you boot into Windows or Linux. Intel Apple computers use EFI and has a shell that you can use to
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interact with it. There are about three different groups doing different things with EFI.
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Intel who developed it. TN Core trying to come up with the free version of EFI or EFI shell.
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And R-E-F-I-T pronounced refit I think on sourceforage.net. A project which actually does implement an EFI
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hack that lets you choose what system you want to boot on your Macintosh computer. A lot of people
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have problems with EFI in terms of not being free in open software or firmware. I have problems with
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EFI because I can't take a USB thumb drive and boot Linux off of it like you might be able to
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with your non Apple computer. Refit doesn't fix this unfortunately but it does at least add support
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for the major Linux file systems. Installation is easy. Go to refit.sourceforage.net and download
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the installation package on Mac OS. Open it up. Double click on the installer and in 15 seconds you
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have refit installed. So since you're doing this for a dual boot system go to your utilities folder
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and open up boot camp and partition the drive into partitions. The first for Mac OS X and the
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second for what it thinks will be Windows. Before doing this you should just in case backup all
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your data. During installation click the customize button and enable all the Linux file system support.
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After you've repartitioned you can reboot just pop in your Linux install CD and one of the first
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things you'll see is your refit screen. The refit screen is basically just intercepting your boot
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process a lot more powerful than just holding down the option key during boot apps since that
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doesn't ever really recognize Linux file systems. Install Linux as you normally would. Now when refit
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comes up you'll have an Apple logo and a penguin logo. Use the arrow keys to switch from one to
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the other. Hit return and you boot into your OS of choice. If you don't choose anything for 20 seconds
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or so it defaults to the first partition which in most cases is OS X. That's it refit. Have a good
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time remember to back up and thanks for listening to hacker publicly. Thank you for listening to
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hacker publicly radio. HPR is sponsored by Carol.net so head on over to C-A-R-O dot N-E-T for all of your team.
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