17 May 2007 (Thu)

08:08:57 # Life testing grub2 on MacBook. grub2-1.95+20070515 should now work, so I tried. It wasn't built for i386 yet, and I had to build it locally. I installed grub-efi, and did the following. I seem to be able to chain-load grub2 from refit. That's one start. grub2 entered rescue mode. In reality, I doubt people will want to chain-load grub2 from rEFIt, so other methods of invoking grub2 is required. I know I can 'bless' from MacOSX, but is there other ways to do that? I think I am missing a few steps here, I'll need to re-check later.

# dpkg -i ../grub-efi_1.95+20070515-1_i386.deb
# grub-probe -t partmap /boot/grub/
gpt
# grub-probe -t fs /boot/grub/
ext2
$ grub-mkimage -o grub2.efi gpt ext2
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/efi
# cp grub2.efi /mnt/efi/efi/grub2.efi