Re: Regarding GRUB 2
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 09:49 +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote:
>
> Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:
> > On Feb 21 2009, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >> The HFS filesystem module fails to read some files, in particular files with
> >> an underscore in the filename. This makes GRUB2 unable to load _linux.mod
> >> from an HFS filesystem, making it hard for PowerPC Mac users to migrate from
> >> yaboot to GRUB2.
> > (...)
> >
> > What are your experiences with grub-ieee1275?
>
> Since I've figured out how to get it running [1], it works like a charm. …
> eemm, not fully, after an kernel update, you have to run update-grub
> manually, but that's it.
I have
postinst_hook = update-grub2
postrm_hook = update-grub2
in /etc/kernel-img.conf for that.
So the search commands in the generated grub.cfg aren't causing problems
for you?
> > I'm still keeping an installation of MacOS X 10.4 on my iBook G3 and I
> > would like to keep it.
>
> It's possible, pretty much the same like on yaboot. Or you can use
> os-prober, but I didn't and doesn't know if it works.
IME it detects the Mac OS installation and puts an entry for it in
grub.cfg, but apparently grub2 can only boot Mac OS on x86 at this
point. Not a real problem for me as there's always the alt/option key
boot menu.
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