I think that that last post might be a little misleading for a new user, I'd just like to clarify it a little bit.
On 18 January 2012 15:23, Fernando Freire <freir...@up.edu> wrote: > I've installed other distributions of Linux before on a MacbookPro and > have found that installing GRUB to the boot record of sda is a Bad > Idea. I can't comment on this part ... > Instead, try installing GRUB to the partition that Gentoo is > currently on (or wherever your /boot partition is mounted) such as > (hd0,3). Installing grub (emerge grub), and installing it to the Boot Record (MBR) of a drive are very different things. Do you mean; grub > root (hd0,0) and NOT grub > setup(hd0) ? This would require the Apple bootloader to allow chainloading into a partition (and I have no clue if / how that is supported). > Also, make sure that GRUB is compiled with support for the > filesystem that you desire to use; I know for a fact that you have to > have a particularly new version of GRUB to support EXT4 > filesystems. grub is has supported ext4 since 2009 - it's kernel filesystem support that's most people mess up. Most gentoo users will still be using grub-0.99, which is years old. -r10 went stable on amd64 in 2010-07.
