From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PKxYZ-0002J8-J2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:25:31 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46560 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKxYS-0002Fm-6O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:25:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKxYI-0006PV-VX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:25:23 -0500 Received: from designskolenkolding.dk ([217.60.12.73]:32788 helo=mail.dskd.dk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKxYI-0006OO-PK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:25:14 -0500 Received: from [172.16.1.8] (217.157.130.7) by exchange2007.dskd.dk (172.16.1.12) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.436.0; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:25:07 +0100 Message-ID: <4CEC0702.8060200@dskd.dk> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:25:06 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?U8O4cmVuIEdyw7hubmluZyBJdmVyc2Vu?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4CEBE3A8.8030104@dskd.dk> <20101123155758.GD12909@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4CEC0003.8080606@dskd.dk> <20101123181744.GE12909@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20101123181744.GE12909@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP2+, XP SP1+ (seldom 98) Subject: Re: GRUB2 EFI and multiboot.mod for use with Xen X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:25:30 -0000 On 23/11/10 19.17, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 06:55:15PM +0100, S=C3=B8ren Gr=C3=B8nning Iverse= n 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=20 issue with the Xen pv-ops dom0 kernel needing a kernel mode line to boot=20 correctly, but I always custom compile these kernels anyhow, so that was=20 of very minor importance ... But I'll give grub-efi-i386 an extra shot!