Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:08:37 -0600 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: using grub.efi on fedora13? [was: Re: [PATCH[RFC] Quirk macbook pro 6,2 into ahci mode] |
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On 07/19/2010 06:47 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote: >> On 07/19/2010 11:23 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote: >>>> On 07/19/2010 09:53 AM, Tino Keitel wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:49:49 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>>> Great! That sounds way better. DO you have a pointer to grub-efi? I'm >>>>>> finding some grub2 efi stuff with google, just want to make sure that is >>>>>> it. A grub 0.9x with efi would be preferable, I find grub2 to be horrible >>>>>> to work with in general... >>>>> >>>>> With grub-efi I meant the EFI support in grub2. AFAIK grub 0.9x never >>>>> supported EFI. >>>>> >>>>> What information do you need? >>>> >>>> Just that, if there was some special grub 0.9x efi variant or whether >>>> you meant grub2 when you said grub-efi. >>> >>> Fedora's grub 0.9x has efi support. >>> >>> But that efi support hasn't been propagated to all the other distros >>> since grub 0.9x really doesn't have an upstream. >> >> This is Fedora 13. What magic do I need to enable the EFI grub bits >> then? > > I've never used it.. I was more delivering the message that Fedora's > grub supports efi ;) > > I found these, but no official fedora installation docs (that I could find): > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI > http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2009/12/using-uefi-duet-to-boot-fedora-12.html > http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/07/23/linux-on-an-apple-xserve-efi-only-machine/ > > 'man grub.efi' would be awesome but no such luck... > > Cc'ing Peter who should be able to steer you in the right direction.
Thanks for the pointers, I'll take it off list at this point, it's getting somewhat off topic :-)
-- Jens Axboe
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