Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758155Ab0GTDIn (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:08:43 -0400 Received: from 0122700014.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.99.235]:41318 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757941Ab0GTDIm (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:08:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4C451335.8090406@fusionio.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:08:37 -0600 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Snitzer CC: Tino Keitel , Matthew Garrett , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Tejun Heo , "jgarzik@pobox.com" , Jesse Barnes , "pjones@redhat.com" Subject: Re: using grub.efi on fedora13? [was: Re: [PATCH[RFC] Quirk macbook pro 6,2 into ahci mode] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2058 Lines: 53 On 07/19/2010 06:47 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 07/19/2010 11:23 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: >>>> On 07/19/2010 09:53 AM, Tino Keitel wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:49:49 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>>> Great! That sounds way better. DO you have a pointer to grub-efi? I'm >>>>>> finding some grub2 efi stuff with google, just want to make sure that is >>>>>> it. A grub 0.9x with efi would be preferable, I find grub2 to be horrible >>>>>> to work with in general... >>>>> >>>>> With grub-efi I meant the EFI support in grub2. AFAIK grub 0.9x never >>>>> supported EFI. >>>>> >>>>> What information do you need? >>>> >>>> Just that, if there was some special grub 0.9x efi variant or whether >>>> you meant grub2 when you said grub-efi. >>> >>> Fedora's grub 0.9x has efi support. >>> >>> But that efi support hasn't been propagated to all the other distros >>> since grub 0.9x really doesn't have an upstream. >> >> This is Fedora 13. What magic do I need to enable the EFI grub bits >> then? > > I've never used it.. I was more delivering the message that Fedora's > grub supports efi ;) > > I found these, but no official fedora installation docs (that I could find): > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI > http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2009/12/using-uefi-duet-to-boot-fedora-12.html > http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/07/23/linux-on-an-apple-xserve-efi-only-machine/ > > 'man grub.efi' would be awesome but no such luck... > > Cc'ing Peter who should be able to steer you in the right direction. Thanks for the pointers, I'll take it off list at this point, it's getting somewhat off topic :-) -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/