Bean wrote:
Perhaps command line is not passed to loader correctly, you can verify
it with the OSX loader:
set root=(hd0,2)
chainloader /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi -- -v
boot
Please try this out, if parameter -v is passed to the loader, you will
see console screen before switching to GUI.
That 'chainloader' didn't work at all: It seems GRUB2 here isn't
understanding the HFS+(journaled) filesystem at all. Neither in EFI nor
BIOS grub2 can I see anything on that partition, even though I have
module hfsplus loaded (I think - but lsmod in grub takes up more than
the whole screen, so I can't see them all - is there any way to get
around that?).
Also I decided to play around and try a few other commands in grub2.
cpuid (efi or pc) -- finishes instantly without outputting anything
lspci (efi) -- hangs (but it works properly in pc)
reboot (efi) -- hangs (but it works properly in pc)
every time I've tried Ubuntu with a different kernel... it has problems. Ubuntu has a
fancy initrd, modules, lots of patches, Upstart as init, >and who knows what assumptions
about the boot process... but maybe. I could use the kernel from the Ubuntu development
branch, if I >had any idea how to use APT to upgrade just a few specific things from an
unstable package-source and not my whole system (the kernel >binary obviously doesn't
depend on system libraries, so it should be uniquely easy to do this...). Do you know
about debians -- if that's >possible?
In debian, all I have to do is to add the sid line to
/etc/apt/source.list, apt-get update, then apt-get install
linux-image-xxx. Ubuntu is based on debian, the process should be
similar.
yes it is similar (and I'd probably try and use the Ubuntu development
branch for the next release, "intrepid") : however, what bothers me is
that this seems to make the whole apt repo, not just the part I want, be
a first-class citizen; so that if it contains a newer version number of
any package on my system, it will install that if I ask to install the
package, or it will offer to upgrade to that version if it's already
installed (so I can't even begin to pick out which are the Ubuntu-stable
updates). I hope I'm missing some option that lets me avoid this risky
nuisance, while still keeping tabs on the unstable linux-image packages?
-Isaac
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