Then I choosed the 'Boot Legacy OS From HD' option, the last one, with a grey icon. In order to have the Grub menu showing up, I needed to install rEFInd under Mac OS X first, then to not press the Option (alt) button but let it boot under rEFInd. Unfortunately, when booting directly on my USB key using the Option (alt) button at startup, the Grub menu didn't show up, just a nice black screen. To be able to do that you need the Grub menu of the installer to show up and modify the boot options. To be able to access the installer without having glitches on your screen you need to boot it adding the nomodeset option to the kernel. I've used the Archboot image, rEFInd and Grub2. I followed the Archlinux Wiki instructions.

InstallationĪs I said, the installation was a bit painful. Indeed, by default, the resolution of the screen is 2880x1800, thus you need very good eyes to be able to see something. The installation was a little bit painful (especially the EFI part), but somehow I found out how to have a bootable Archlinux.The hardest part (understand, the less documented one) was how to have a Desktop with a 'normal' font size. Here is the exact configuration: 15.4'/2.0 Quad-core i7/8GB/256-Flash. This model seems to be known under the name 'MacbookPro 11,2' (ME293xx/A) on the Apple website. I've recently installed Archlinux on the latest 15' MacBook Pro Retina (late 2013). Using Archlinux on a Retina (HiDPI) MacBook Pro with Xmonad 08-12-2014 Using Archlinux on a Retina (HiDPI) MacBook Pro with Xmonad

Arch linux macbook pro mid 2014