Re: EFI Boot on MacPro

[Ziling Zhao <zilingzhao@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 06 January 2009 21:14:48 Bean wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:54 PM, peter cros <pxwpxw8@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The kernel vesion may be the bug there, I have found grub.efi needs
> > 2.6.26 or later, configured with EFI enabled, else the result is similar
> > to yours.
> >
> > I have had a grub.efi test package built from vesion 1913, running  in
> > ubuntuforums.com (apple intel) for a while, a number of people tried it.
> >
> > grub.efi it would load and run for Apple MacBook2,1, Apple mini2,1
> > MacBook pro 2,2 or earlier , i.e. none of the current Apple MacBooks, but
> > no reports   for Apple xserver, Imac or Mac Pro.
>
> Later models have switched to 64-bit firmware, you need to use
> x86_64-efi version of grub2.

Which models switched to 64bit firmware? Form the looks of it, all of them are 
still using EFI 1.x, does Grub2 support EFI 1.x with x86_64?

I believe the kernel version that I am running is 2.6.27. 

I'll try again with the x86_64 version of Grub2 tomorrow.

~Ziling Zhao