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These notes are for installing Arch Linux as dual boot on a Macbook Pro Retina 2012.

Wireless

  1. Download b43 firmware
  2. Disable ipv6: add ipv6.disable=1 to the kernel line
  3. rmmod b43
  4. modprobe b43
  5. ip link set wlp4s0 down
  6. netctl start ibm

Bootloader

In OS X

Download rEFInd from http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/, then install it into the ESP:

./install.sh --esp

Mount the EFI partition and add the following options to refind.conf located on it:

  1. dont_scan_volumes
  2. scan_all_linux_kernels
  3. also_scan_dirs

In the Arch install

pacstrap /mnt grub dosfstools efibootmgr grub-efi-x86_64
arch-chroot /mnt
mkdir -p /boot/efi
mount -t vfat /dev/sdXY /boot/efi
modprobe dm-mod
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck --debug
mkdir -p /boot/grub/locale
cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg