I run Linux off an external USB hard drive on a Mac Mini. Until now I
have been using Legacy Grub with Ubuntu. The only way I have been able
to make this work is to have refit boot off a Legacy Grub CD which gets
a kernel off a partition on the internal drive, but sets root on the USB
drive.
Ubuntu 9.10 offers Grub2 and I'm wondering if I can do something with
less pieces. I particularly don't like maintaining a shadow boot
partition on the internal disk, or depending on the CD to boot.
I tried just letting Ubuntu 9.10 install with Grub2 on the USB drive.
When I boot with refit off the "legacy" partition, I get a screen with
"Using Load Option USB", then a dozen lines of not found errors, and
finally a line that says that external hard drives are not well
supported by Apple firmware.
Is there something else I should try with Grub2, thats an improvement of
the awkward setup I use with Legacy Grub?
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