Don't know, rechecked it here and it sees all the usb partitions whichever way its booted, maybe something wrong with your grub.efi build preloaded modules. Check the latest svn.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: > On 2009-03-14, Peter Cros <pxwp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: > > > >> 1) Mac firmware not being able to boot from anything other > >> than an HFS+ partion on a GPT partioned drive. > > > > I got curious and rechecked this - > > Here is grub.efi booting from usb msdos drive with hfsplus partition - > > When I try that, I get one of two things: > > 1) When it boots directly into grub, grub can only see hd0 > (which appears to be the USB drive), but it can't see any > of the paritions on hd0. Needless to say, it can't find > it's config file. > > 2) Holding down the Option key and selecting grub allows it to > see both disks -- it can see partitions on the > GPT-partitioned hard drive but not on the MS-DOS > partitioned USB drive. I can manually load a config-file > from the hard drive, none of the menu entries work -- I see > stuff like > > error: unknown command `initrd' > > or > > error: unkown command `search' > > Here's the info on the USB drive: > > bash-3.2# diskutil list /dev/disk1 > /dev/disk1 > #: TYPE NAME SIZE > IDENTIFIER > 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *3.7 Gi disk1 > 1: DOS_FAT_32 minimyth 1.9 Gi disk1s1 > 2: Apple_HFS mmhfs 1.9 Gi disk1s2 > > bash-3.2# bless --info /Volumes/mmhfs > finderinfo[0]: 2 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/mmhfs/ > finderinfo[1]: 120 => Blessed System File is > /Volumes/mmhfs/efi/grub/grub.efi > finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty > finderinfo[3]: 0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder > finderinfo[4]: 0 => Unused field unset > finderinfo[5]: 2 => OS X blessed folder is /Volumes/mmhfs/ > 64-bit VSDB volume id: 0xA3FBF66150DE9BB1 > > > --setBoot gives deafult fast boot to grub menu, but when booted that way, > > grub can only see its own disk (hd0) > > Same here, and it can't see any of the partitions on that disk. > > End result: still no luck booting from USB drive, just a larger > variety of failure modes. > > -- > Grant > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Cros (pxw)
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