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What boot manager do use for an OSX/Debian Dual Boot?

Started byEric Andrew Lewis <eric.andrew.lewis@gmail.com>
First post2016-04-15 18:20 +0200
Last post2016-04-16 17:40 +0200
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  What boot manager do use for an OSX/Debian Dual Boot? Eric Andrew Lewis <eric.andrew.lewis@gmail.com> - 2016-04-15 18:20 +0200
    Re: What boot manager do use for an OSX/Debian Dual Boot? Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2016-04-16 02:20 +0200
      Re: What boot manager do use for an OSX/Debian Dual Boot? Eric Andrew Lewis <eric.andrew.lewis@gmail.com> - 2016-04-16 17:40 +0200

#166742 — What boot manager do use for an OSX/Debian Dual Boot?

FromEric Andrew Lewis <eric.andrew.lewis@gmail.com>
Date2016-04-15 18:20 +0200
SubjectWhat boot manager do use for an OSX/Debian Dual Boot?
Message-ID<roeDo-5Pa-39@gated-at.bofh.it>

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If you are a dual boot OSX/Debian user, what boot manager do you use?

I've heard that OSX makes some low-level filesystem changes on upgrades, so
wondering what are some good options.

Thanks,

Eric Andrew Lewis
ericandrewlewis.com
+1 610 715 8560

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#166752

FromKeith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com>
Date2016-04-16 02:20 +0200
Message-ID<rom7T-37C-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#166742
On 16 Apr 2016, Eric Andrew Lewis <eric.andrew.lewis@gmail.com> wrote:
>If you are a dual boot OSX/Debian user, what boot manager do you use?
>
>I've heard that OSX makes some low-level filesystem changes on
>upgrades, so
>wondering what are some good options.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Eric Andrew Lewis
>ericandrewlewis.com
>+1 610 715 8560

Eric

As I recall, I 'blessed' (apples' term)  the partition that I wanted to boot most often and used the hold the alt key when I wanted to use the other OS.  Remember, apple starts partition numbers at 0 (zero). 

There used be a facility rEFIt that did a reasonable job, but I found it only made a slow boot process even slower. 


If you want to multiple boot, put grub on the blessed partition on your next install. 

I needed the space osx was using some years ago, so no longer dual boot, hence my haziness. 
Keith Bainbridge

0447 667 468 

Keithrbaugroups@gmail.com 

Sent from my APad 

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#166776

FromEric Andrew Lewis <eric.andrew.lewis@gmail.com>
Date2016-04-16 17:40 +0200
Message-ID<roAud-5LI-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
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Thanks for your notes!

> If you want to multiple boot, put grub on the blessed partition on your
next install.

I found that this is the default behavior after install, so perhaps after
Debian installs Grub, it interacts with the system's firmware to use GRUB
as a boot manager. And you can always boot into OS X by holding option as
you mentioned.

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