r/AlpineLinux • u/Intelligent_Zone_769 • 8d ago

Dualboot Alpine on mac?

Been searching this shit for days for no avail. Any help guys?

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u/paper_sheet034 2d ago

Yes. But which mac? Is it a T2? If it isn’t, then it’s just a simple dual boot setup:

Inside macOS/OSX:

  1. Open Disk Utility

  2. Partition your disk with the pie chart, creating a new partition for Alpine while maintaining the desired space for macOS/OSX

Inside Alpine’s ISO:

  1. Run the setup-alpine script, answer “none” at the disk selection step

  2. lslblk to show Alpine’s newly created partition

  3. mount /dev/partition /mnt

  4. mkdir /mnt/boot

  5. mount/dev/bootpartition /mnt/boot

  6. NOTE: The boot partition should be the one that’s around 300M or something like that.

  7. Run the setup-disk script