I'd also like to help test this as I have a first gen macintel mac pro
that needs to run centos. It was difficult to get a 2nd gen machine to
see the os drive last time I loaded centos...
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Drew Rosen
On Apr 19, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello, thank you for the testing. Two concepts together (system
folder and system file) are clearly redundant. I thought that intel
macs look which folder is blessed and load boot.efi file from this
directory. Here I attach a patch which updates finderinfo[0] when
argument is a directory and finderinfo[1] when argument is a file.
Can you do a test and tell me which concept is really used by intel
macs? When doing tests don't forget to hold option key and select
your testing partition. I will do a similar test on my ppc mac
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Peter Cros <pxwp...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Tested and works on Apple imac81 with Mac OSX 10.5, patch applied to
r 2074
grub> hfspbless (hd0,3)/efi
Last login: Sun Apr 19 14:30:23 on console
im81:~ pxw$ bless --info /Volumes/hfsp
finderinfo[0]: 52 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/hfsp/efi
finderinfo[1]: 0 => No Blessed System File
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]: 0 => No OS 9 + X blessed X folder
64-bit VSDB volume id: 0x0F87F7680B9C5211
im81:~ pxw$
Now it just needs to bless the file in order to boot from grub.efi
on Apple EFI
hfspbless <DIRECTORY> <FILE>
This would be VERY useful, making grub.efi boot possible on Apple
Mac without needing Mac OSX or refit.
hfspbless is fine for a name
2009/4/19 Vladimir Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>
Hello, due to request by ams I wrote this. It's an analog of "bless"
command available under OSX rewritten using grub2 fs functions and
according to apple specification of hfs+ on-disk format. This
command only update the blessed folder on a partition it doesn't
change which drive is used for booting. The later will be a separate
command. Also you can choose which volume to boot from by holding
option key. Syntax:
hfspbless <DIRECTORY>
It works only on HFS+ volumes. Also due to the lack of hardware I
wasn't unable to test this "in vivo"
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