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For more information on how to modify the rEFInd theme, and on how to proceed in order to install Kali Linux on your MacBook Pro, or run it from your USB thumb drive with persistence, check out my other posts.
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If there is no bootable device attached to your laptop you should only see the Mac OS icon (the one on the left in the picture above). Once you reboot again, you’ll immediately see your new boot manager and if you followed my tutorial on how to create your bootable Kali Linux USB thumb drive, you’ll be able to boot Kali from it (with a few restrictions and issues I’ll explain it in one of my other posts). Also, be aware that your screen is going to look slightly different than the one you can see in the picture below, since I already modified my rEFInd theme. Enter the following command to enable SIP again. Same as before, hold ⌘ + R while rebooting and open up a terminal window. This last time, however, I was so fed up with OSX and the fact I never used it, I nuked it entirely.I boot purely into the Debian Bootloader now. That’s it! You’ve successfully installed rEFInd on your MacBook Pro and can now enable Apple’s System Integrity Protection again if you want to. rEFInd Boot Manager The majority of times I installed Linux I ran rEFInd on my mac, so I could keep my mac partition and have a separate Linux partition. refind-install Enabling Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP)
#MAKING A REFIND BOOT MANAGER MAC ZIP#
At the time of this post, the current version was 0.10.4, but I assume that the following steps are going to be similar or identical with future versions as well.Īfter downloading the ZIP file, open up another terminal and run the following commands to unzip and install rEFInd.
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Once that’s done, restart your MacBook and download rEFInd from. csrutil disable Download & Install rEFInd 0.10.4 All you have to do is open up a terminal, which you can find under Utilities > Terminal in the top menu there and enter the following command to disable SIP. Since my usual tools are not available there, I don’t have any screenshots to show you, but that’s not a big deal. This is causing your MacBook to boot in recovery mode, allowing you to disable SIP. The first thing you want to do is disable Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) by pressing ⌘ + R while booting your MacBook Pro. Disabling Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) In addition to those changes, the rEFInd setup itself changed as well somewhere between version 0.8.3 and the current version 0.10.4 which I used while writing this tutorial.
#MAKING A REFIND BOOT MANAGER MAC PRO#
Unfortunately, the official Kali Linux documentation only describes how to install rEFInd in version 0.8.3 which doesn’t work on MacBooks running OS X Yosemite or newer due to a few changes Apple introduced back then. In my last article, I explained how to create a bootable USB thumb drive for Kali Linux that actually works with the new MacBook Pro 13,2 (Late 2016 with Touch Bar), however you can’t just simply boot it with Apple’s boot manager by holding down the Option/Alt key while booting, so we’ll also install rEFInd to allow booting from USB.
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To successfully boot Kali Linux from your USB drive, you need to install rEFInd as well, which is going to be your default boot manager from now on. So if there is any way, like hardware, to get to the data on the disk I would appreciate a lot your help.In my last article, I explained how to create a bootable USB thumb drive for Kali Linux that actually works with the new MacBook Pro 13,2 (Late 2016 with Touch Bar), however you can’t just simply boot it with Apple’s boot manager by holding down the Option/Alt key while booting, so we’ll also install rEFInd to allow booting from USB. I actually need only to take some important data from the disk, moving it for example to an external drive, after that I can also restore the Mac Book. Drop the files in the /EFI/refind/ folder and overwrite the nf file. What could I do to load macOS again, or get in a macOS shell from where I could probably remove the rEFInd solving the problem and being able to boot to macOS? Theme for the rEFInd boot manager on Mac and Linux. I'm also unable to boot into safe mode at start, I assume because it loads rEFInd before macOS operating system is loaded. Selecting that one, it loads into the Minimal Grub Bash, from which I don't know how to proceed.
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Yesterday I accidentally reinitialized the disk on which Linux was installed, and when I restarted the Mac, in the rEFInd boot menu there was no more the icon to load macOS, but only the one for Linux. I have a MacBook Pro 15" late 2015, on whom I created two partitions on the main SSD, on one there is the macOS, and on the other I installed Linux Mint.