Bug 31201

Summary:	Mageia 9 alpha 1 standard iso Grub Not installing on Macbook Pro; Mageia 8 does.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ezequiel Partida <ezequiel_partida>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, lewyssmith, mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ezequiel Partida 2022-11-29 01:03:11 CET

Description of problem:

Hello Eveyone,
I installed mageia 9 alpha 1 to a macbook pro, the installation goes fine until it reboots, it seems the boot loader is not installed.
I tried with mageia 8 iso and it works great.

Regards

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2022-11-29 11:43:45 CET

Interesting report: on a Mac?

(In reply to Ezequiel Partida from comment #0)
> I installed mageia 9 alpha 1 to a macbook pro, the installation goes fine
> until it reboots, it seems the boot loader is not installed.
Normally we would say this is not supported; except that...
> I tried with mageia 8 iso and it works great.
So please say which ISOs you installed from, both Mageia 8 and 9: 'standard' = Classic?
And be more exact about the the boot error messages, where they come from.

Bootloader installation defaults to Grub, but you can choose instead rEFInd: try that.
We shall probably ask you to boot from a Live ISO to look at the system which installed apparently OK, but does not boot.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Summary: Mageia 9 alpha 1 standard iso Grub Not installing on Macbook Pro. => Mageia 9 alpha 1 standard iso Grub Not installing on Macbook Pro; Mageia 8 does.

Comment 2 Ezequiel Partida 2022-12-02 23:27:41 CET

Hello

I used mageia 9 standard install x64

But I found that the problem is only when I use Ventoy 1.81. 

I dumped the iso using isodumper and it works.

I noticed this because when I rebooted the Mac it did not boot, but if I rebooted the mac with the usbkey installed the mageia 9 grub2 menu was displayed with no problem. So I did another reinstall but this time I used rEFInd and I got the same problem, but this time rEFInd was installed on the ventoy USB key, I tested the usbkey on another laptop and rEFInd was indeed installed on the USB Key. I did another test but this time I used Grub2 and voila.. the mageia grub menu was installed on the ventoy usbkey.

Once installed using a isodumper created key the installation goes well.

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2022-12-03 03:26:59 CET

Thanks for the update. Closing as invalid since it's not a Mageia bug.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 4 Martin Whitaker 2022-12-03 10:55:30 CET

You should be able to make it work with Ventoy by using custom partitioning and choosing the correct partition for the /boot/EFI mount point.

CC: (none) => mageia