Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eoin Hennessy wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I've been taking a look at grub2 on an EFI Apple Macbook. I've >> installed a build from CVS HEAD and I can chainload grub.efi via the >> rEFIt loader. When grub loads I'm seeing the 'grub rescue>' command >> prompt. As a test, I'd like to chainload OSX's boot.efi using the >> 'chainloader' command listed at [0] but the command is reported as >> 'unknown'. I've also tried the instructions at [1] but it allooks like >> grub.cfg is being ignored. Perhaps someone could point me in the right >> direction. > > In May/June 2007 I failed at using Grub2 cvs - efi on my new MacBook > too, with the same issue. But I'm using Grub2 with legacy boot > sequence to boot... because it understands GPT :) and that works > except the keyboard usually doesn't work during boot because of > Apple's buggy bios.
Are you aware of other bootloaders that do *not* have this problem? I experienced this with GRUB Legacy. The workaround was not pretty... > I'm not sure if chainloading would work due to grub2 not understanding > HFS+ ? I tried putting grub2-efi and a linux kernel image on a > FAT16/vfat partition. It *does* understand HFS+, if you load the hfsplus.mod module :-) > Anyway I can probably help test anything if needed. Can you please send in bug reports whenever something in GRUB 2 doesn't work? Or better: document it on the wiki so we will not forget about this :-) -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
