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From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 on macbook pro
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:51:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FDB86F.5030800@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50FD74E7.9030909@gmx.de>

On 22/01/13 01:03, Nicolai Beuermann wrote:
> Am 21.01.2013 05:04, schrieb Douglas J Hunley:
>> I'm completely stuck on getting Grub2 to work with the EFI on a new
>> macbook pro. I have grub2 emerged w/o issue, and efibootmg as well.
>> I've looked at both the Grub2 wiki and the Macbook wiki and the
>> various directions are just /not/ clicking for me. Anyone have any
>> clue how to actually get the EFI on macbook to boot Grub from
>> /dev/sda1?
>>
>> --
>> Douglas J Hunley (doug.hunley@gmail.com)
>> Twitter: @hunleyd                                               Web:
>> douglasjhunley.com
>> G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
>>
>>
> Here I have two macs with linux (gentoo), both are running refit
> (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) to boot properly.
> 
> regards
> Nico
> 
> 
There is a catch22 - you have to be booted via EFI to install EFI.  To
do this, I had to boot using EFI (I think it was fedora) and use that to
set up with efibootmg.

BillK




  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-21 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-21  4:04 [gentoo-user] grub2 on macbook pro Douglas J Hunley
2013-01-21 17:03 ` Nicolai Beuermann
2013-01-21 21:51   ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2013-01-22 12:40     ` Neil Bothwick
2013-01-24 15:40       ` Douglas J Hunley
2013-01-22  8:16 ` Rupert Stratford
2013-01-22 17:08 ` Benjamin Lee
2013-01-24 15:41   ` Douglas J Hunley

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