On Oct 30, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Sergio Trejo wrote:

> Thanks tons -- that ought to work out just great (not trivial but worth the 
> effort for those of us with orphaned Xserves)!

It's worth noting that for the moment Red Hat finds their EFI version of Grub 
Legacy to be more stable than Grub 2 EFI. I myself have converted over to Grub2 
entirely and have found both BIOS and EFI versions to work find on Macbook Pro 
4,1 and 8,2. In my case I use CSM boot to Grub2 BIOS version when I want a GUI, 
because of problems with Apple's EFI implementation and video card drivers. 
When I want to boot off a USB stick and can tolerate text only booting, I use 
EFI boot to Grub2 EFI. In no case do I use rEFIt anymore.

Anyway, point is you may want to use the Red Hat variant of Grub Legacy that 
has been modified for EFI, specifically the 32bit one. I will bet you can find 
a recent one on the Fedora 16 beta netboot.img although a newer one might be 
available on FC1. Final release of Fedora 16 is in a week if you want to wait. 
Otherwise I'd just snag the most current version of Fedora's Grub Legacy EFI 
from an i686 netboot.img and then redirect it to an x86_64 LiveCD or DVD ISO of 
either Fedora 16 or CentOS 6 if you want a more stable/static operating system 
to use for a server.


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