Lion and refit?

[Nevalite]

I was trying to get refit to work on my osx 10.7 today but could not get it working. I used the auto install first, tried rebooting a few times, never came up...Then I tried to do the manual install in the terminal but when it would prompt for my password in terminal I couldn't type anymore and then wasn't able to compete the install.

After all that I decided to remove refit and once it was gone my os would hang at the apple logo and little spinning things indefinitely. If I held the power button down and restarted then it would boot fine. I finally had to use the recovery feature, used the disk repair and everything is fine now.

Long story short, refit and lion, yes/no?

 

[res1233]

Works fine for me. I don't think it handles encrypted drives yet. I don't use that feature however.

 

[Nevalite]

Did you use the auto or manual install?

 

[res1233]

Did you use the auto or manual install?

Manual. Now that you mention it, I did have trouble with automatic installation. You have to delete a startup item it installs as well as a launch daemon to fully uninstall it. Look up a guide for that, I forget where they are exactly.

 

[Nevalite]

Yeah to uninstall you need to delete /efi in root and /library/startup/efibless or something like that, I did that when the auto wasnt working.

edit:

While booted into Mac OS X, rename or remove the “efi” folder. For a 100% clean de-installation, also remove the folder “rEFItBlesser” inside “Library/StartupItems”.

I tried to do the manual install like you did but as mentioned above, after typing the command in terminal it asks for your password and when the password line comes up I can't type anymore, its very weird...

 

[res1233]

Yeah to uninstall you need to delete /efi in root and /library/startup/efibless or something like that, I did that when the auto wasnt working.

edit:

I tried to do the manual install like you did but as mentioned above, after typing the command in terminal it asks for your password and when the password line comes up I can't type anymore, its very weird...

You could try removing the sudo from the script, then type "echo password|sudo -S /path/to/script.sh". You won't need to input it that way. You do realize that although nothing appears to be typed, it's because the sudo command doesn't display typed characters, right?

 

[Nevalite]

No i didn't realize that...so even if its not showing up I'm typing my password?

 

[res1233]

No i didn't realize that...so even if its not showing up I'm typing my password?

Correct. That fools everyone in the beginning.

 

[Nevalite]

Well I'll be damned, it worked! Did the manual install, typed my invisible password and it works now.

Thanks a lot res1233

 

[res1233]

Well I'll be damned, it worked! Did the manual install, typed my invisible password and it works now.

Thanks a lot res1233

You're very welcome!

 

[bobby.is.rad]

On the refit webpage it says that the manual install will bring up the refit prompt even when your computer returns from soft sleep. I put my laptop to sleep all the time, so that would be a problem. Did this happen to you after the manual install?