▲ 193 ▼ The new macOS 27 beta changes Apple's boot picker in a way that hides the Asahi Linux partition, preventing Apple Silicon Mac users from booting into their Linux installations. (www.phoronix.com) submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 5 months ago (5 children) Taking a leaf out of Microsoft's book, I see permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] toor@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 child) Yeah, I tried dual booting for a very short time ~20 years ago (oh man...) Every time Windows would obliterate my grub config/mbr and I'd have to dig up instructions to reconfigure grub from live cd. Never again. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] qupada@fedia.io 17 points 5 months ago Back in those (pre-UEFI) days it was quite easy to add GRUB to the Windows boot manager instead. You'd wind up with a menu entry that Windows would usually leave alone, unlike its aggressive reinstallation overwriting GRUB. Once UEFI came along, it became easier to give each OS an entire disk with no connections between them, and use the BIOS as the boot menu. Or, y'know, just give Windows the flick and only run Linux 😉 permalink fedilink source parent [–] tyler@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago (2 children) It’s a beta…they fix bugs to get asahi booting all the time. This isn’t new. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 21 points 5 months ago (1 child) Sure but what if I already hate Apple and this article validates my feelings? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago That's what I'm saying (!) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] toor@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 child) Yeah, I tried dual booting for a very short time ~20 years ago (oh man...) Every time Windows would obliterate my grub config/mbr and I'd have to dig up instructions to reconfigure grub from live cd. Never again. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] qupada@fedia.io 17 points 5 months ago Back in those (pre-UEFI) days it was quite easy to add GRUB to the Windows boot manager instead. You'd wind up with a menu entry that Windows would usually leave alone, unlike its aggressive reinstallation overwriting GRUB. Once UEFI came along, it became easier to give each OS an entire disk with no connections between them, and use the BIOS as the boot menu. Or, y'know, just give Windows the flick and only run Linux 😉 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] qupada@fedia.io 17 points 5 months ago Back in those (pre-UEFI) days it was quite easy to add GRUB to the Windows boot manager instead. You'd wind up with a menu entry that Windows would usually leave alone, unlike its aggressive reinstallation overwriting GRUB. Once UEFI came along, it became easier to give each OS an entire disk with no connections between them, and use the BIOS as the boot menu. Or, y'know, just give Windows the flick and only run Linux 😉 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tyler@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago (2 children) It’s a beta…they fix bugs to get asahi booting all the time. This isn’t new. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 21 points 5 months ago (1 child) Sure but what if I already hate Apple and this article validates my feelings? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago That's what I'm saying (!) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 21 points 5 months ago (1 child) Sure but what if I already hate Apple and this article validates my feelings? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago That's what I'm saying (!) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago That's what I'm saying (!) permalink fedilink source parent