From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Iqtoy-0003ve-0f for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:08:36 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iqtow-0003vF-IJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:08:34 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iqtov-0003v3-3F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:08:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iqtov-0003v0-0y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:08:33 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.21]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iqtou-0000UZ-Cr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:08:32 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAAH8VSo083218 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:08:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <47281e410709170723y490b53abm737fdc1e486b2227@mail.gmail.com> <46EF1809.90804@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:09:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <46EF1809.90804@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> (Isaac Dupree's message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:12:57 -0300") Message-ID: <87fxzef2oe.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: Grub2 on a Macbook. X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:08:34 -0000 Isaac Dupree writes: > Eoin Hennessy wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I've been taking a look at grub2 on an EFI Apple Macbook. I've >> installed a build from CVS HEAD and I can chainload grub.efi via the >> rEFIt loader. When grub loads I'm seeing the 'grub rescue>' command >> prompt. As a test, I'd like to chainload OSX's boot.efi using the >> 'chainloader' command listed at [0] but the command is reported as >> 'unknown'. I've also tried the instructions at [1] but it allooks like >> grub.cfg is being ignored. Perhaps someone could point me in the right >> direction. > > In May/June 2007 I failed at using Grub2 cvs - efi on my new MacBook > too, with the same issue. But I'm using Grub2 with legacy boot > sequence to boot... because it understands GPT :) and that works > except the keyboard usually doesn't work during boot because of > Apple's buggy bios. Are you aware of other bootloaders that do *not* have this problem? I experienced this with GRUB Legacy. The workaround was not pretty... > I'm not sure if chainloading would work due to grub2 not understanding > HFS+ ? I tried putting grub2-efi and a linux kernel image on a > FAT16/vfat partition. It *does* understand HFS+, if you load the hfsplus.mod module :-) > Anyway I can probably help test anything if needed. Can you please send in bug reports whenever something in GRUB 2 doesn't work? Or better: document it on the wiki so we will not forget about this :-) -- Marco