Hello, After creating 4 partitions with MacOSX installation CD (and installing OSX) I installed Gentoo 2006.1 x86_64 onto the 4th partition (i.e. /dev/sda5; in OSX invisible FAT32 partition counts as /dev/sda1). Now I am kindly looking for help in making linux EFI-bootable using grub2.
In short, what I did so far is (following instructions at http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnEFI as closely as I could): running on CD-booted 64-bit Linux (on /dev/sda5 as root filesystem): 1) cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/grub checkout grub2 2) cd grub2 3) ./configure --with-platform=efi 4) make 5) ./grub-mkimage -d . -o grub.efi gpt hfsplus fat ext2 6) cp grub.efi *.mod fs.lst command.lst /boot/grub/ 7) cp grub.efi *.mod fs.lst command.lst /media/usbdisk/ 8) I compiled 2.6.18.3 kernel as /boot/vmlinuz Then I booted MacOS and as root-user: 9) mkdir /Volumes/something/efi/grub 10) Copied usbstick/* to /Volumes/something/efi/grub/ 11) bless --folder=/Volumes/something --file=/Volumes/something/efi/grub/grub.efi --setBoot 12) Then I created /Volumes/something/efi/grub/grub.cfg as set timeout=10 menuentry "GNU/Linux" { search --set /boot/vmlinuz set root=(hd0,5) linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 } menuentry "MacOSX" { set root=(hd0,2) chainloader /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi In fact 'something' is 'Macintosh HD part2', OSX formatted HFS+ journaled partition /dev/disk0s3. Now if holding down the 'alt' key while powering on I can choose between disk0s2 with installed OSX and 'EFI_boot' (disk0s3) which loads and starts grub if selected. Grub comes and gives lots of errors: (line 2-2) syntax error Incorrect command ... (line 12-12) Press any key to continue... Then grub shows command line interface: grub> set root=(hd0,5) grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 grub> boot grub> _ is what I entered and now nothing happens. However grub reads the ext3-formatted /dev/sda5 partition as typing TAB completes path- and filenames. I am very thankful if someone could point out what is wrong I have done above. I have zero experience in using MacOSX but I think the 'bless' was successful as OSX presents boot device where grub was copied. Second, I suspect I probably can't boot "MacOSX"-entry above because I could not figure out if grub can read files in HFS+ journaled partitions (maybe this is why grub shows syntax errors?); but I can happily live with pressing 'alt' key while turning power on. Greetings (I am sorry for the long post), Eeri Kask _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
