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I'm having some trouble booting Mac OS X from GNU GRUB 2.02.
I get an infinite purple screen when attempting.

djeikyb
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Camilo Riviere
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Adding something like

menuentry "OS X" { insmod hfsplus set root='(hd0,gpt3)' chainloader /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi }

to your grub config might help.

Note that you may need to change the partition number from "gpt3" to something else, such as "gpt2" or "gpt4". You want to identify the partition on which OS X is installed and use its partition number. To use this example, copy it to your /etc/grub.d/40_custom file in Linux and then type sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

I pasted most of this answer from here: Mac OS X won't boot from grub menu in Ubuntu Precise on Apple MBA(5,2)

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amanthethy
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I believe I had the exact same problem you are using refind right? If not hold option when booting load on OS X go here: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ Installing this will allow you to select os x or ubuntu at power on.

This is a workaround:

Using OS X

  1. Simply click here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.3/refind-bin-0.8.3.zip/download to download the rEFInd program/app

  2. Unzip the file

  3. Open a terminal and goto the location where you unzipped the file ie say you unzipped the file in the Downloads directory you would type cd Downloads, then type ./install.sh this will place the refind on your hard drive.

  4. Reboot and refind will give you the options to select how you want to boot.

Daniel
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