Wait for a few seconds while refit loads and shows all the bootable files on the air.
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Reboot the air and press the option(alt) button at the startup sound. Because I have heard users comment that the dd method is not the best for efi based systems). Now plugin the usb stick created and reboot(I would suggest you to get hold of an external dvd r/w, Yes, U can use any USB external dvd r/w. Reboot the air and hold the option(alt)key on the keyboard when u hear the start up sound.Boot into osx and reboot two to three times in the same way. Prepare hard drive in OSX: (shrink your OSX partition in Disk Utility)Äownload refit.dmg(the image file for a mac).
ARCH LINUX MACBOOK AIR 2013 ISO
Write the ISO to a USB stick using dd or unetbootin(hugely recomended) or burn it to a CD/DVD. All the gratitude/thanks/kudos go to the Arch community of devs and users. Let me be clear here that majority of what I have written here is verbatim copy of the Arch wiki. Form your own procedure then You can fine tune it with any gotchas you find in my writeup. Please go through all the resources I have linked in the previous post. The exact way how a computing experience should be, You, the user, is the master. Coming from Debian GNU/Linux, where there is "flowing" installer where you chose all the options and then finalize the installation, it was different when my arch installer just dropped me to the root prompt and stood there blinking for my command. The capability of hand tuning what you want on your laptop or desktop with Arch GNU/Linux is awesome. I have gone with Arch GNU/Linux and I am loving it. So, If you choose any distro which has excellent efi support and the latest bleeding edge Linux kernel you are good to go and try any distro. The Linux kernel has "Out of the Box" support for all the hardware on this version. To start, let me make a very strong statement about the state of support for the hardware of this version of Macbook air. If you point your ire at me, I will have the last laugh. Disclaimer: I dont take any responsibility for the damage of yourĮquipment.