Remove GRUB from MacOS boot partition

I’ve got Linux on an external SSD drive which I can boot from my Macbook Pro using Command-D while powering up to select Linux as the boot drive.

The only glitch is that when installing Linux, by mistake I installed GRUB (Linux boot loader) on my Mac root partition. The easiest way to fix this is to boot the machine into repair mode using Command-R and reinstall MacOS. This won’t erase your data or applications, just reinstall the operating system and rewrite the boot partition. (The process takes about an hour, so plan ahead.)

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