Re: efi linux booting on macbook pro fails with grub2 1.97

2009-10-26 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 14:50 -0700, Michael Evans wrote: > I think that grub2 still uses the same hd0 == sda ; hd1 == sdb ; ... ; > hd(N-1) =sd(N) scheme, but stops counting partitions within drives > from 0 and instead uses the same number as otherwise (maybe they > mapped 'partition 0' to the whol

Re: efi linux booting on macbook pro fails with grub2 1.97

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Evans
I think that grub2 still uses the same hd0 == sda ; hd1 == sdb ; ... ; hd(N-1) =sd(N) scheme, but stops counting partitions within drives from 0 and instead uses the same number as otherwise (maybe they mapped 'partition 0' to the whole devices as a default argument; that would make sense to me).

efi linux booting on macbook pro fails with grub2 1.97

2009-10-26 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Dear list, I am trying to boot linux of a MacBookPro5,3 using grub2 1.97, refit and efi booting and well it doesn't work :/ What I did ./configure --with-platform=efi make mount the vfat partition that contains the EFI dir to /mnt/efi ./grub-mkimage -d . -o grub.efi part_gpt hfsplus fat ext2 no