EFI is already used by Apple, and if you want to dual-boot one with
Linux (or that other major OS) then you have to download install
REFIt, which acts like a bootloader gives you the options to boot into
an OS, from a CD or flash drive, or go into a shell, use the disk
partitioner, get the about
That's really good to know. I've used REFit on dual-boot Mac/Windows
systems. I didn't realize you could use that for dual booting to
Linux, too!
Chris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jim Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.com wrote:
EFI is already used by Apple, and if you want to dual-boot one
I'm currently DB with OS X Ubuntu 10.04. The Nvidia driver is a bit
wonky, though, when rendering web pages that you have to scroll on. It
quite often gives you double lines of text/pictures, but you can select
all on the page straighten most of it out. Kind of annoying, and I
think I'll
Ubuntu lets you choose between the open source Nvidia driver and the
proprietary Nvidia driver. Have you tried both? Does one work any
better than the other?
Chris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Jim Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm currently DB with OS X Ubuntu 10.04. The
Yeah, it doesn't make any difference. I've even waited to see if the new
2.6.3x kernel might make a difference, but no dice.
Jim
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:00 -0500, Chris McQuistion wrote:
Ubuntu lets you choose between the open source Nvidia driver and the
proprietary Nvidia driver. Have you
- Original Message -
One question Howard had at the meeting was GRUB 2 why?. I took it to
mean Why abandon the original GRUB and start over? (If not, then
this doesn't
apply.) According to GRUB FAQ,
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html
#1 The GRUB we have loved for the
- Original Message -
grub2 supports efi . I don't think grub 1 does. This is one of things
I noticed when I was playing with gentoo on itanium (one of the first
architectures to incorporate efi). Isn't efi supposed to replace the
bios eventually?
According to...
