using grub.efi on fedora13? [was: Re: [PATCH[RFC] Quirk macbook pro 6,2 into ahci mode]

using grub.efi on fedora13? [was: Re: [PATCH[RFC] Quirk macbook pro 6,2 into ahci mode]

[Mike Snitzer]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
> On 07/19/2010 11:23 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
>>> On 07/19/2010 09:53 AM, Tino Keitel wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:49:49 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>> Great! That sounds way better. DO you have a pointer to grub-efi? I'm
>>>>> finding some grub2 efi stuff with google, just want to make sure that is
>>>>> it. A grub 0.9x with efi would be preferable, I find grub2 to be horrible
>>>>> to work with in general...
>>>>
>>>> With grub-efi I meant the EFI support in grub2. AFAIK grub 0.9x never
>>>> supported EFI.
>>>>
>>>> What information do you need?
>>>
>>> Just that, if there was some special grub 0.9x efi variant or whether
>>> you meant grub2 when you said grub-efi.
>>
>> Fedora's grub 0.9x has efi support.
>>
>> But that efi support hasn't been propagated to all the other distros
>> since grub 0.9x really doesn't have an upstream.
>
> This is Fedora 13. What magic do I need to enable the EFI grub bits
> then?

I've never used it.. I was more delivering the message that Fedora's
grub supports efi ;)

I found these, but no official fedora installation docs (that I could find):
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI
http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2009/12/using-uefi-duet-to-boot-fedora-12.html
http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/07/23/linux-on-an-apple-xserve-efi-only-machine/

'man grub.efi' would be awesome but no such luck...

Cc'ing Peter who should be able to steer you in the right direction.

Mike

Re: using grub.efi on fedora13? [was: Re: [PATCH[RFC] Quirk macbook pro 6,2 into ahci mode]

[Jens Axboe]

On 07/19/2010 06:47 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
>> On 07/19/2010 11:23 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
>>>> On 07/19/2010 09:53 AM, Tino Keitel wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:49:49 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>> Great! That sounds way better. DO you have a pointer to grub-efi? I'm
>>>>>> finding some grub2 efi stuff with google, just want to make sure that is
>>>>>> it. A grub 0.9x with efi would be preferable, I find grub2 to be horrible
>>>>>> to work with in general...
>>>>>
>>>>> With grub-efi I meant the EFI support in grub2. AFAIK grub 0.9x never
>>>>> supported EFI.
>>>>>
>>>>> What information do you need?
>>>>
>>>> Just that, if there was some special grub 0.9x efi variant or whether
>>>> you meant grub2 when you said grub-efi.
>>>
>>> Fedora's grub 0.9x has efi support.
>>>
>>> But that efi support hasn't been propagated to all the other distros
>>> since grub 0.9x really doesn't have an upstream.
>>
>> This is Fedora 13. What magic do I need to enable the EFI grub bits
>> then?
> 
> I've never used it.. I was more delivering the message that Fedora's
> grub supports efi ;)
> 
> I found these, but no official fedora installation docs (that I could find):
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI
> http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2009/12/using-uefi-duet-to-boot-fedora-12.html
> http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/07/23/linux-on-an-apple-xserve-efi-only-machine/
> 
> 'man grub.efi' would be awesome but no such luck...
> 
> Cc'ing Peter who should be able to steer you in the right direction.

Thanks for the pointers, I'll take it off list at this point, it's getting somewhat
off topic :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe