From: Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC, RFT] Mactel integration
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:27:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED39A59.20503@kiilerich.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED38BC0.6090100@gmail.com>
On 11/28/2011 02:25 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello all. Based on the information from
> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/7468.html I intend to add support for such
> install. It requires a small HFS+ volume mounted at /boot/mactel. I also
> simplify handling of EFI directories by adding explicit option to
> specify it and removing some "compatibility" kludges (they don't make
> anything compatible with anything since "old behaviour" was mostly not
> to install at all) which made the code in question difficult to
> maintain.
Matthew will perhaps give a more thorough response, but I would like to
add a few quick comments.
Matthew also created http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/mactel-boot/ , so
there seems to be some duplicate work there.
His approach is discussed further on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755093 .
A quick summary is that it (in my opinion) is a bit unclear what Macs
_really_ needs. There are several ways grub can be used to boot Macs,
and it is not completely clear whether HFS blessing or HFS is necessary
at all. The Mac boot loader detects FAT partitions and will by default
also boot from /EFI/BOOT - also on the system partition. The OS/X
"Startup Drive" configuration is a bit more sensitive, but it seems like
what it writes to PRAM/VRAM is more important than the HFS blessing.
/Mads
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-28 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-28 13:25 [PATCH, RFC, RFT] Mactel integration Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-11-28 14:27 ` Mads Kiilerich [this message]
2011-11-28 14:50 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-11-28 22:23 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-11-28 22:29 ` Seth Goldberg
2011-11-29 6:34 ` Seth Goldberg
2011-11-29 7:25 ` Keshav P R
2011-11-29 8:05 ` Seth Goldberg
2011-11-29 9:00 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-12-02 6:22 ` Keshav P R
2011-12-02 6:53 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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