Dinh:Genome Miner Upgrades
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Make sure reFit or reFind is installed on Os X.
- Download reFind by Rod Smith, a copy that works on Mac Os X 10.5 is on Robert's expresso Downloads folder on Os X.
sudo ./install.sh --notesp
Make a UBUNTU USB efi bootable drive
- make sure USB is properly formatted. In Os X, open Disk Utilities and click on the USB stick volume, and then Information to see the disk number.
- the Partition Map Scheme should be "Master Boot Record" and the format should be FAT32.
- if not formatted correctly, click the drive, then click Partition. Make 1 large partition with "MS-DOS (FAT)" format and click Options at the bottom to choose "Master Boot Record"
- Name the partition "UBUNTU"
- Next, download the ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta
- Next, download the iso file of a recent version of Ubuntu Desktop Edition 64 bit.
- Create the following directories on USB drive: efi and efi/boot
- Copy the bootX64.efi from "ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta" into efi/boot on the USB drive.
- Copy Ubuntu image into efi/boot and rename it to "boot.iso"
- There should be two files on USB drive now: bootX64.efi and boot.iso, both are in efi/boot.
- Reboot computer and in the reFit menu, should be able to select "boot from bootX64.efi on UBUNTU".
IMPORTANT: clone boot drive!!!
- Partition the boot drive using Os X for the MacHD or Os X partition using Disk Utility. Make this partition only 500 GB.
- Use "Restore" function of Disk Utility to make an extract & bootable copy of the MacHD.
- After it is finished, boot into the Linux safe mode and run dd to clone the Linux boot partition.
- NOTES: after cloning, the drive should be bootable onto Os X on it own, however, there may be missing EFI booting configuration in the Linux boot partition (if it was mounted on the EFI partition of the drive, it might not get copied over).
- Since we do not need to upgrade Os X, I repeated the process of cloning Os X onto a new HDD.
IMPORTANT: install the new HDD to be the root drive into the mac pro
- I tried installation with the new HDD mounted on the external drive, however, this didn't work well. The best thing to do was to remove all bootable or current boot drive and attach only the new HDD (with bootable Os X) to the Mac Pro.