i use archlinux, i made the partition on osx with gpt fdisk, then formated the small hfs+ partition and disabled the journaling. in installed manually grub2 on the hfs+ partition during the installation, and wen rebooted on osx blessed the smal hfs+ partition.

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3.0 KiB free space
1 200.0 MiB EFI System EFI System Partition
2 175.7 GiB Apple HFS/HFS+ mac
128.0 MiB free space
3 200.0 MiB Apple HFS/HFS+ Linux EFI
128.0 MiB free space
4 200.0 MiB Linux filesystem Boot
5 10.0 GiB Linux filesystem Root
6 43.0 GiB Linux filesystem Home
7 3.4 GiB Linux swap Swap