Re: Boot delay when using grub.efi on Mac Mini

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2009-03-11, phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2009-03-11, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Moving grub from the EFI FAT32 partition to the HFS+ partition
>>> eliminates the 30-second delay.  In this case the status looks
>>> like this:
>> 
>> It's usable this way except it would be nice to have grub in a
>> second parition.  That way if I break grub, I can still hold
>> down the option key and select the OS-X HFS+ partition.
>
> You can always format an additional HFS+ partition

That sounds like something worth trying.  We don't know if it's
working because it's in an HFS+ partition or if it's working
because it's in the same parition as OS-X.

Maybe I'll stick in a USB flash drive with a GPT partition
table and an HFS+ partition.

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