Bug 486759

Summary:	No installation possible on MacPro
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Sebastian Wolff <BastisEmail>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	openSUSE 11.1
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Sebastian Wolff 2009-03-19 10:22:52 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1 Firefox/3.0.6

We have a MacPro with 3 harddisks

On 1st HD: EFI partition and MacOS are installed. 

On 3rd HD: OpenSuse is to be installed.

No chance to boot into openSuse

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install rEFIt
2. install OpenSuse on /dev/sdc2
3. reboot
Actual Results:  
No operation system beside MacOS is shown in Refit menu! 
We then tried to install GRUB in the MBR using the repair system. The note in the documentation, that this should not be done was found later - sidenote: please check your knowledgebase. Their are multiple how-tos for installing opensuse on mac

Now rEFIt even does not recognize the partitions anymore and shows multiple boot possibilities - most of them defunctional)

We had the impresion that rEFIt recognizes boot partitions on the 1st hdd only.

We then tried to reinstall openSuse by adding a partition to sda which was mounted as "boot" -> GRUb was able to start, but not able to find any operation system :(

Comment 1 Torsten Duwe 2010-02-11 13:01:03 UTC

Should work with 11.2 now. feel free to reopen if it doesn't.