GRUB2 to boot MacBook in pure EFI/GPT mode.

GRUB2 to boot MacBook in pure EFI/GPT mode.

[Ben Wilber]

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Hello,

	I am interested in using GRUB2 to boot my Ubuntu installed on a
first-generation Apple MacBook with Intel Core Duo.  I have been
successful with a tri-boot setup using LILO and rEFIt and a single boot
with just GRUB.  It is my understanding that rEFIt merely sycronizes the
GPT with the protected MBR block on the GPT disc(?).  I would like to do
away with having to use any BIOS emulation/MBR voodoo altogether.

First, is it possible?  I have a 32bit kernel installed
(2.6.20-15-generic).  I tried ELILO but when I apt-get installed elilo
it also pulled down efibootmgr.  However, when I try to run efibootmgr I
get a error about the module efivars not being loaded.  In fact, efivars
does not exist in my kernel.  So, is that my first problem? simply that
my kernel is not EFI-aware?  Ive been reading over some of the Debian
discussions and it seems that EFI support was in the standard ia32
kernels since last year.

Any help to get going in the right direction would be great.

Thanks!

Ben
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