Re: GRUB2 EFI and multiboot.mod for use with Xen

["Søren Grønning Iversen" <sgi@dskd.dk>]

On 23/11/10 19.17, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 06:55:15PM +0100, Søren Grønning Iversen wrote:
>>   I have existing well functioning Xen setups that I'd like to transfer
>> to this Mac Pro, but the only bit that seems to block this move is the
>> capabilities of GRUB2-EFI concerning multiboot functionality.
> Oh, are you trying to dual boot the Mac between Linux (to run xen stuff)
> and Mac OS?
>
Yes I would like for that to be possible.
>> I'm very pleased with my experiences with Xen until now and I am much
>> more at home with Xen at the moment so it never really struck me that I
>> might very well look to KVM for this ... One thing that has definately
>> caught my attention with KVM is Red Hat's emerging oVirt management
>> interface. It seems to be a really slick Ruby on Rails based piece of
>> work and I could see that do a lot of good for me in the future, but
>> this is altogether a different story from the GRUB2-EFI starting point ;)
> I have used grub2 on standard BIOS based PCs, and on openfirmware.
> I haven't tried EFI myself, so no idea what kind of bugs to expect
> with that.
>
I have had no issues at all with grub2 on bios based PCs (only a small 
issue with the Xen pv-ops dom0 kernel needing a kernel mode line to boot 
correctly, but I always custom compile these kernels anyhow, so that was 
of very minor importance ...

But I'll give grub-efi-i386 an extra shot!