Am Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:16:26PM +0200 schrieb Julien BLACHE: > Wilfried Klaebe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have an EFI system (a MacBook Pro 3,1) and boot Linux via grub-pc > > on it. For this purpose, I have created an EFI "BIOS Boot Partition" > > (GUID 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649). gptsync does not recognize > > this GUID and fails to sync. Complete output as follows: > > What do you have on this partition? Is it just space for grub2 to > install into?
http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition has a nice explanation that says it all. > > Would be better if gptsync just translated the BIOS Boot Partition to a > > type 0xda partition. > > Depending on what is on this partition, that might do, yes. > > Can't grub2 just install at the start of a partition like grub > does? No, it's too big. I tried installing to a partition with an ext2 FS, and it made fsck cry. Even when the ext2 was freshly mkfs'd. > Is this setup really needed, or is it yet another grub2 "we > really don't get any of this, let's do it that way"? It is needed. I would like to use grub2-efi, but then the nvidia graphics won't work. Regards, Wilfried -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
