I fail to understand how exactly this works with apple machines.Īre there other things I could try, kernel args maybe? So do I need an mbr for syslinux/grub-legacy/other options? for booting into bios/csm-mode? I would most gladly revert this and have just the gpt on my disk. Now DiskUtil from osx created a hybrid-mbr for me, because I used it to repartition my disk, but as neither osx nor linux require this, I can't use syslinux again, because I use xfs as my root fs, and syslinux doesn't support it.Īlso, as far as I've been able to figure out, the use of syslinux requires an mbr. Now, I've had archlinux with the blob working on this machine before, at the time though I guess I was booting in bios or csm mode,Īs I was using syslinux (which was started by refit/refind). What is the status of this as of ? Anybody with the mbp 7.1 out there? I've also read contradictory claims of the blob working in similar circumstances. Hunting around, I now know, that officially, nvidia doesn't support 'pure efi mode' with their drivers.

So I installed the blob, rebooted, only to find that X/the blob crashes on startup of X. Sadly, nouveau doesn't handle the nvidia 320m chip all that well, so I have tearingĪnd most problematically my system gets really hot quite fast. Out of the box, using nouveau, this just works. I'm dualbooting osx and arch, have refind installed to the ESP partition, and boot linux using efistub. I've recently reinstalled archlinux on named machine, and I'm currently at a loss regarding the nvidia-blob.

Mid 2010 macbook pro screen issues