On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Isaac Dupree <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi GRUB-ers, > > > BACKGROUND: > > Apple's BIOS implementation, at least on my Macbook2,1 , flips out and fails > to boot if you put GRUB* in the usual MBR location.**
If this is true then it's not something that grub developers are aware of. Grub as a project often has to work around braindead firmware, but until it's clear that this is needed as a work around for bugs in Apple's BIOS implementation (or for another good reason) I don't see grub supporting using the BIOS Boot Partition as an embedding area when not installing to the mbr. First, please run "grub-install /dev/sda" with no other work arounds (preferably with grub 1.99) then run boot info script http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/ and post the RESULTS.txt which it produces (to see if there are any other obvious problems which might be causing boot to fail). If it does appear that a work around is needed for Apple's firmware then a bug should be filed against grub so an official work around can be created. Vague reports on a wiki aren't helpful when trying to debug a problem like this, so if a work around is needed we really need someone like you who is experiencing the problem to work with the grub developers to figure things out. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
