From there the Mac OS X partition can be resized. Just launch Disk Utility, click on the laptop's hard drive and click on the Partition tab. Partition the Hard Drive This step is nice and easy on the Mac. I've included some instructions on that in the post.ġ. This post outlines the full installation instructions, but if you already followed the previous guide, you can update the rEFInd installation and configuration file. Fortunately, there is a better way! Thanks to a comment on the rEFInd website, I found out that file system drivers can be installed that allow rEFInd to read the Linux partition. This then becomes a painful process that needs to be repeated every time there is a kernel update on Ubuntu. One of the challenges of the installation was that the boot manager, rEFInd, needed the Linux kernel to be copied from the Linux partition to the Mac OS X partition.
In my previous installation guide, I outlined the first way that I found of installing Ubuntu on a Retina Macbook Pro. Please check the rEFInd website for more details. Update: If you have Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) installed, then the rEFInd installation needs to be handled differently.
