Daniel Clark wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#Debianinstallation
Thanks. I've used rEFIt before, but that page is still informative. Bootloaders are not something I currently understand, but grub does work with other distros so it should be solvable for gNewSense, too. > It says EFI is only starting to be supported directly in > squeeze, so it certainly wouldn't work "out of the box" Not all set ups need it. I found I needed EFI only when a multiboot setup included OS X. So gNewSense should use it. > on metad 3, where upstream is lenny. Etch may be an advantage. I found that lenny appears to suffer from some problems. For example, I could not get lenny to install directly on sparc (a t1000). Eventually I had to install etch first, then go via distro upgrade. When I ran Debian on the amd64, it was etch, even after Lenny was released, but I can't recall why. I've used that machine for about 2.5 years. It's had a mixture of OS X, Debian Etch, Ubuntu (8.04, 9.04, 9.10), and OpenBSD. Usually 3-4 months between changes. On some occasions it was dual boot Debian or Ubuntu w/OpenBSD. On others it was triple boot, with OS X, too. Only when OS X was there did I also need rEFIt. /Lars _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
