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From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:21:40 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <goboaj$93p$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200902280946.58217.peritus@rajking.net

On 2009-02-28, Robert J. King <peritus@rajking.net> wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2009 11:32:04 pm Grant Edwards wrote:
>> >
>> > 1.  The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac
>> >     partition patch.  Simple update of portage and then grub
>> >     fixes this.
>>
>> Do the livecds now use grub?  I thought they used syslinux.
>> Maybe I'm thinking of a different livecd.

> The livecd's boot is fine.  I was refering to grub is
> installed to the HD by default.  Can ignore it anyway as
> 2008.0-r1 installs grub-0.97-r4 that has the gpt patch.

I see.  I don't plan on installing to the HD, so it's not
something I need to worry about ... except I guess installing
to a USB flash drive is logically equivalent, so I probably do
have to worry about it.  I wonder if Linux and OS-X can share a
swap partition...

-- 
Grant





  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27 20:21 [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini? Grant Edwards
2009-02-27 21:29 ` Thierry de Coulon
2009-02-27 21:41 ` Stroller
2009-02-28  1:07   ` Cocoy Dayao
2009-02-27 23:31 ` Mark Knecht
2009-02-28  5:35   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-02-28  2:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Robert J. King
2009-02-28  5:32   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-02-28 15:46     ` Robert J. King
2009-02-28 16:21       ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2009-02-28 17:17         ` Robert J. King
2009-02-28 13:05   ` [gentoo-user] " KH
2009-02-28 15:31     ` Robert J. King

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