Hello > Do you mean run grub-emu as part of a linux installation to bless grub.ef? > It seems to leave the problem of booting the linux installer, which is easy > to do from grub.efi - if it is blessed. > At present we install grub.efi manually, using only grub-mkimage to build > grub.efi, without using other grub utilities, and mostly just use preloaded > modules. > You can use the bootable CD of your favourite distro. I hope that grub2.efi will become a default bootloader to install on efi system for major linux distributions
> > > Here is some more info for the intel mac - > > Further checking shows that Apple EFI will detect and boot an unblessed > file named boot.efi but only if the enclosing folder is blessed. > Will not boot unblessed grub.efi in the same folder. > > im81:~ pxw$ bless --info /Volumes/hfsp > finderinfo[0]: 7891 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/hfsp/efi/test > 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]: 7891 => OS X blessed folder is /Volumes/hfsp/efi/test > 64-bit VSDB volume id: 0x0F87F7680B9C5211 > > im81:~ pxw$ ls /Volumes/hfsp/efi/test > boot.efi grub.cfg grub523.efi grub523.icns grub64.icns > im81:~ pxw$ > That boots boot.efi using the Option key. > Could you determine the priority? E.g. if you have both blessed file and boot.efi in blessed directory which one is loaded? > > For OSX boot.efi - > im81:~ pxw$ bless --info / > finderinfo[0]: 149 => Blessed System Folder is > /System/Library/CoreServices > finderinfo[1]: 297081 => Blessed System File is > /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.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]: 149 => OS X blessed folder is > /System/Library/CoreServices > 64-bit VSDB volume id: 0x0F8CB2A6A4C456E8 > >> >>>>> >>> -- >>> Cros (pxw) >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Grub-devel mailing list >>> Grub-devel@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> >> > > > -- > Cros (pxw) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
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