Re: [gentoo-user] Mac Mini with Grub booting Mac OSX and Windows?!

2013-05-30 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi Yuri, If the MAC Mini has a UEFI Bios, then the whole problem we have talked about was for nothing. That is only related to 32 Bit Versions of Windows. x64 Windows 7 Version comes with a UEFI Bootloader and an installer, that can be used. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744321%2

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac Mini with Grub booting Mac OSX and Windows?! GOT IT!

2013-05-30 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi Andrea! Got the problem with Windows I red myself today through (h) No need to answer my last Mail in the List, it is all clear to me now. But thanks again, for the last long explanation anyway Tamer Am 30.05.2013 10:04, schrieb Andrea Conti: > >>> The real proble

Re: [gentoo-user] external SSD problem

2013-05-30 Thread Grant
>> > What happens if you issue "umount /mountpoint" from a vt, rather than >> > clicking >> > "eject" in Thunar? >> >> That does work fine as does right-click + Unmount from within Thunar. >> Ejecting from within Thunar seems to be the troublesome one. > > It appears the problem is with Thunar's "

Re: [gentoo-user] external SSD problem

2013-05-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:15:16AM -0700, Grant wrote: > > > > What happens if you issue "umount /mountpoint" from a vt, rather than > > clicking > > "eject" in Thunar? > > That does work fine as does right-click + Unmount from within Thunar. > Ejecting from within Thunar seems to be the troubles

Re: [gentoo-user] external SSD problem

2013-05-30 Thread Grant
>> I just got one of these: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208913 >> >> It seems to work fine except that once I eject it in Thunar, I get >> this in dmesg: >> >> sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache >> sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recove

Re: [gentoo-user] external SSD problem

2013-05-30 Thread Grant
>>I just got one of these: >> >>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208913 >> >>It seems to work fine except that once I eject it in Thunar, I get >>this in dmesg: >> >>sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache >>sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac Mini with Grub booting Mac OSX and Windows?!

2013-05-30 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 30.05.2013 18:29, Tamer Higazi wrote: ... which in turn means that Windows will not use the GPT table. This is a really stupid Windows limitation, but we can't do anything about it. hm The Linux kernel can use GPT with no restrictions, however booting is another story. Booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac Mini with Grub booting Mac OSX and Windows?!

2013-05-30 Thread Tamer Higazi
Okay, I meanwhile got that even the most new Mac Mini Servers make use of the earliest implementations of EFI that Windows doesn't understand. The only way to get Windows booted propperly is in BIOS emulation mode, but that Partitions wouldn't be recognized (according it's emulation). Questio

Re: [gentoo-user] external SSD problem

2013-05-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:23:25PM -0700, Grant wrote: > I just got one of these: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208913 > > It seems to work fine except that once I eject it in Thunar, I get > this in dmesg: > > sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache > sd 8:0:0:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac Mini with Grub booting Mac OSX and Windows?!

2013-05-30 Thread Andrea Conti
The real problem is that while rEFIt/rEFInd, OSX and Linux have no problem dealing with a GPT partition table, Windows only supports MBR. (Windows 7+ supports GPT partition tables but it can only boot from a GPT disk in EFI mode. So, let us assume we have in the game: Windows 7 Ultimate Editi