I've lost my boot menu options.

When i boot and hold command all I can see is my windows partition. How can I re-install OSX/recover my HD. (only had for 2 weeks and It came with no boot CD or USB). As i only have windows i need to be able to do any recovery from there.
What i've think i've done is ruin the EFI Boot Loader when trying to create a second partition in my "bootcamp" partition.
So how can i do a fresh reinstall/get the option to boot from my recovery partition.

Cheers for the suggestion but Command+R Also does not work. I have reinstalled windows to what what was my boot camp partition now but I still cant see a way to back to OSX install it.

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* Using OSX to install rEFInd manually (moving the files around and using OSXs `bless` command) http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#osx , I used the rEFInd files from Archs repos: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … efind-efi/ )
* The Wiki docs on rEFInd https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UE … ing_rEFInd
To summarize, I'm trying to set up a dual boot between MacOS (installed) and Arch (also installed, there's just no way to boot it on my system yet) using Apple's built in menu that deals with the EFI partition on /dev/sda1 . Thanks in advance for any help!
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enduser wrote:I've successfully installed arch on my mid-2012 (5,1) 11" Macbook Air, and now I'm trying to get an entry in apple's boot menu (the one that shows when you hold 'option' when starting the computer). From the author of rEFInd's install instructions (http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#osx) it sounds like I can just add some files to `/dev/sda1` (a vfat directory that contains the stuff needed to boot macos), and then run apple's `bless` command and we're good to go.
Not quite. That makes a boot loader bootable, but it doesn't add an entry to Apple's boot manager menu. There's a blog post somewhere by Matthew Garrett that describes the steps necessary to add something to Apple's boot manager, but I couldn't find it in a quick Web search. Maybe you'll have better luck, or be able to track down the same information somewhere else. As I recall, it involves using a separate HFS+ volume, creating two or three dummy files, and using "bless" in OS X.
1. Do I even need a bootloader on a pure GPT/UEFI system?
Yes, you do need a boot loader. It's important to distinguish between a boot loader and a boot manager, though. The former is a program that loads a kernel, and perhaps associated data, into memory and transfers control to the kernel. A boot manager presents a user interface that enables you to select which OS (or which boot loader) to launch. A boot manager is not strictly necessary, and Apple's EFI implementation includes its own simple boot manager, which is what you've been unsuccessful in configuring.
Note: I'd like to have as little software between the firmware and the os, for speed and simplicity. However, I'd still like to dual boot, but it sounds like the firmware can handle showing me a menu as long as there are entries pointing to parts of each OS.
Many people make do with the firmware's own boot manager, but this can be rather inflexible. I'm not even sure if Apple's boot manager can handle passing options to Linux kernels' EFI stub loaders. This ability is not absolutely required, but without it you must compile your options into your kernel at compile time, which greatly reduces flexibility since you can't modify the options on a per-boot basis -- say, to boot into single-user mode if this is required.
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The usual Arch Linux method of handling kernel updates is to overwrite an old kernel with a new one, so no boot loader/boot manager changes are required. If you want to keep numbered kernels around (as most other distributions do), GRUB provides scripts that can help automate changes, but they are required in the grub.cfg file. rEFInd can auto-detect boot loaders, and if you're using the EFI stub loader, that means that the kernel is its own boot loader, and with a proper configuration, rEFInd can detect new kernels without changing its configuration file.
SYSLINUX has some very early and very experimental EFI support. The one and only time I tried it (about a month ago), it wouldn't compile for me. (I don't know of a precompiled binary available on the Web -- the support is that new!) I don't recommend trying it unless somebody who's gotten it to work offers to help you personally.
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I have tried something like that with ZenWalk (Slackware- based distro) and it worked for me on my Lenovo b305 with ATI 5450, no problems like that. Not sure about how Ubuntu will deal with these AIO systems. But I have a feeling that it is not your HD or booting, sounds like a video problem. ATI and Linux don't get on well.
Can you see the console y Alt +F1? perhaps you have to reconfigure Xorg manually.
My advice is to ask in Ubuntu forums they might have better ideas. ATI 5??? line is still "new" for Linux and the open drivers need time to work properly.
Also keep in mind IdeaCentre was not build for Linux...Issues like this might happen also post install.
Hope this helps,
Sergio

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