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- Part 1 simply booting the liveCD to even allow installation is here: https://stephen.yearl.us/installing-solus-linux-on-a-macbook-pro-9
Rebooting after install lead to, you guessed it, the Black Screen of Death again. Solus was installed, accepting all defaults (and therefore one humongous / paritiion), to /dev/sdb2, /dev/sda1 is the EFI partition on which rEFInd was installed when running OS X MacOS.
❯ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16 0 477G 0 disk
├─sdb2 8:18 0 473.2G 0 part /
└─sdb1 8:17 0 3.7G 0 part [SWAP]
sdc 8:32 1 3.9G 0 disk
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda2 8:2 0 465G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 619.9M 0 part
└─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part
#1 Boot back into MacOS, mount EFI paritition:
❯ sudo /Users/yearluk/Downloads/refind-bin-0.10.7/mountesp
❯ cd /Volumes/ESP/loader/entries
❯ nano Solus-lts-4.9.22-17.conf
#2 CHANGE:
title Solus 2017.04.18.0
linux /EFI/com.solus-project/kernel-com.solus-project.lts.4.9.22-17
initrd /EFI/com.solus-project/initrd-com.solus-project.lts.4.9.22-17
options root=PARTUUID=c96bc351-b364-4c61-9fe6-8489f0ceec8f quiet ro splash resume=UUID=8f7d1509-fe95-4e47-8017-41611ad0a14c
TO:
title Solus 2017.04.18.0
linux /EFI/com.solus-project/kernel-com.solus-project.lts.4.9.22-17
initrd /EFI/com.solus-project/initrd-com.solus-project.lts.4.9.22-17
options root=PARTUUID=c96bc351-b364-4c61-9fe6-8489f0ceec8f ro nomodeset nouveau.blacklist=1 resume=UUID=8f7d1509-fe95-4e47-8017-41611ad0a14c text 3
#3 Repeat steps #3 through #8 from Part 1 (#7 this time was modprobe nvidia
)
#4 update entire system
sudo eopkg up