Hi all
A few months ago I tried to install Mint Linux 16 on my late 2009 27 iMac that already had OSX and Windows 7 installed. The install went fine but Linux changed the MBR causing windows to no longer boot. The option to boot Windows would show up but it would just hang.
Somehow during my attempts to fix this I lost both the EFI and Recovery partitions. Since then Ive been using rEFIt to boot. Both OSX and Windows 7 boot fine with it, I deleted the Linux partition.
Since the only way to get the efi partition back is to reformat the drive Im going to use this an excuse to move to the dual hard setup Ive been thinking about for some time. I plan on removing the optical drive and replacing it with an SSD.
The plan is after installing the SSD is to boot to the current Seagate drive and back it up via time machine to an external hard drive. Then back up the Windows partition with winclone to my NAS. Install OSX via the mac store to the SSD, switch the boot drive and then reboot. Restore backups after rebooting.
My question is: How should I go about installing Linux so I dont encounter the same issues again? Also is a there a distro that would be more appropriate for this type of setup than Mint?
Thanks in advance for any input.
A few months ago I tried to install Mint Linux 16 on my late 2009 27 iMac that already had OSX and Windows 7 installed. The install went fine but Linux changed the MBR causing windows to no longer boot. The option to boot Windows would show up but it would just hang.
Somehow during my attempts to fix this I lost both the EFI and Recovery partitions. Since then Ive been using rEFIt to boot. Both OSX and Windows 7 boot fine with it, I deleted the Linux partition.
Since the only way to get the efi partition back is to reformat the drive Im going to use this an excuse to move to the dual hard setup Ive been thinking about for some time. I plan on removing the optical drive and replacing it with an SSD.
The plan is after installing the SSD is to boot to the current Seagate drive and back it up via time machine to an external hard drive. Then back up the Windows partition with winclone to my NAS. Install OSX via the mac store to the SSD, switch the boot drive and then reboot. Restore backups after rebooting.
My question is: How should I go about installing Linux so I dont encounter the same issues again? Also is a there a distro that would be more appropriate for this type of setup than Mint?
Thanks in advance for any input.