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Re: Jessie B2 Installer Not booting in Macbook Air



On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:17:09PM -0700, john.tiger wrote:
> Have followed both guided partitioning  as well as trying manual partitions
> with efi boot as first partition.   Install works fine but after completion
> does not boot (get ? folder image)  - tried to boot into rescue mode but
> target partition not found
> 
> partitions :
> free space 1 gb
> /efi             1 gb

I think that 1 GB is huge for an EFI partition. Even Windows only uses a
few hundred MB at most. Grub needs only a few kilobytes.

Also, you probably need to mount it at /boot/efi, ensure that it's
fat32-formatted and has a GUID of C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B.

> /                 30 gb
> swap          4 gb
> /home       80 gb
> free space  4 gb
> 
> tried to put efi as first partition but installer automatically puts 1gb
> free space in front
> 
> also tried Fedora 20 - it boots fine
> 
> would prefer to use Jessie
> 
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