mac – Why doesn’t my dual boot (macOS/Linux Mint) iMac not boot after I deleted the Linux Mint partition?
I had a dual boot (macOS/Linux Mint) iMac (2017 27″) for about a year, recently my iMac has not enough space so I wanted to remove Linux Mint.
In disk utility, I delete a 7GB swap partition and a 20GB partition for sharing files and merged with the partition where Linux Mint 21 was installed.
After that, macOS can not boot.
I ran macOS recovery mode, in terminal I saw the drive info like this:
Disk0:
0:GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1:EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2:FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF 841.7 GB disk0s2
3:Linux filesystem 120 GB disk0s3
The second one, disk0s2 with strange name FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF should be the partition where macOS is installed.
For reference I found a post here in Super User which is a little similar problem, unfortunately my knowledge of running codes in terminal is very poor.
I tried also in macOS internet recovery mode to reinstall macOS, but there is no disk for me to choose to install.
I reinstalled Linux Mint on this 120 GB partition, which runs well, unfortunately it’s impossible from there to access files in macOS partition which are my most concerns. Is there a way to access macOS files from Linux Mint or some other methods?
Is the disk0s2 partition repairable so the macOS will be able to boot?
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