2008/12/10 peter cros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My current preferred bootloader is SVN version 1913 grub2.efi here on an > Apple MacBook2,1. running Macosx10.4 and Ubuntu810 i386 32bit kernel (2.6.27 > kernel), together with rEFIt 0.12 (but also used standalone). > > The amd64 kernel loaded but failed to complete initialization. > > Glad to know grub.efi still runs on the mini. > > To date I have not seen any reports of running on later MacBook versions. > and the apple efi refused to load grub.efi on a macbook3,1. I have been > trying to get Ubuntu forum people to test on other macs. > > I can comment on some of the issues mentioned. > > The rEFIt blesser resets to bless rEFIt on exit from Macosx. > The explanation for this is on the rEFIt site. > > rEFIt has a case problem. The efi directory, containing grub.efi and > refit.efi, needs to be upper case 'EFI' not 'efi', rEFIt confuses the case > in the prefix passed to grub, hence loss of the grub.cfg menu. > > The failure to boot legacy bios may be associated with loss of MBR sector > partitioning table (happens with the ubuntu linux parted partitioner for > GPT/MBR disks). Check by a hexdump of the MBR sector.
yes, I will look at the rEFIt and MBR, thanks. > > I can't get grub.efi to load rEFIt using chainloader, but I don't want to do > that. > > I find considerable advantage over grub-pc is separate installation, off the > linuix file system, and off the disk MBR sector, plus external drive > bootability. Requirement to disable accelerated graphics is a stopper for > some people. Pity it doesn't work on more macs. > Acceleration works fine for me. The VESA framebuffer has weird colours (from the very start) but the X server runs fine (it locks up from time to time but that happens on other systems as well so it's probably unrelated to not having a BIOS). Also the X server would not run without agp driver at least (unless I would run on top of the broken VESA fb). Speaking of removable devices .. it seems that the CD-rom if inserted becomes hd0 which breaks my grub config. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
