Hi all- After many years as a happy Linux-PPC user, I'm really working to get Debian running on my Mac Mini. It's a new Core 2 Duo machine.
I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an external USB disk (30gb) and have tried quite a few combinations. The most recent and successful is this: Get latest Grub2 from CVS and build on Debian Lenny running in VMware Fusion. Make grub.efi as per the Grub Wiki's "TestingOnEFI" page, with the addition of ext2 and linux modules to the image. Partition the disk via OSX DiskUtility to have a 1gb HFS+ volume on the GPT, the rest free space. Install grub.efi as per the wiki page and bless. Boot a recent (09/2007) Debian i386 Lenny netinst CD, chosen because I believe the EFI support is on by default in the kernel. Partition and install a basic system in the free space. Don't install Grub via the installer. Reboot holding down the option key, "EFI Boot" USB volume appears, select and get Grub2 shell prompt. Enter: linux (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-686 which returns: [Linux-EFI, setup=0x1e00, size=0x142490] and then: initrd (hd0,3)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21-2-686 which returns: error: no free pages available . . . Could someone amplify on the significance of this message? I'm not sure where to go with this bit of information. Thanks in advance, Charles Turner _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
