I run an update today on my Mac and it updated GRUB. I select it to leave it and not update it however when I reboot, rEFIt didn't appear and went straight to GRUB. I can boot into ubuntu but not into OS X.
When I shutdown and then turn the power back on while holding the OPTION key it does nothing and goes straight to the GRUB menu. I really need to get back to my OS X partition so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jorden
21 Answer
I went to my local Mac store and the technician had a look.
Turns out on newer versions of MacBooks you can hold OPTION+R
This will bypass everything and take you straight into recovery.
- From there launch the disk utility manager
- Set Mac HD as your default drive.
- Reboot then login on OS X check in the preferences that Mac HD is the start up disk.
- Shutdown and you should hopefully see rEFIt and carry on as normal.
Hope this helps anyone who has the same problem I did.
As a note as well, if you're silly like me and didn't make a USB key (make one!) with your version of OS X! Lots of guides around on how to do it. Guide: LifeHacker Burn OS X to DVD/USB
