Re: Boot delay when using grub.efi on Mac Mini

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-03-11, Grant Edwards <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2009-03-11, Peter Cros <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Try the other instructions for MacBook
>>
>>
>> http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook ( recentlu updated )
>>
>> including bless --folder --file --setBoot
>>
>> (not --mount)
>
> When I do that, it still goes through 15 of the 2-second
> time-wasting operations, then it boots directly into OS-X.
> I was under the impression that the --folder version only
> worked if grub was installed in the default HFS filesystem.
>
> Changing back to the "--mount" version of the bless command
> results in the same 30-second delay, but at least it loads
> grub.efi.

Moving grub from the EFI FAT32 partition to the HFS+ partition
eliminates the 30-second delay.  In this case the status looks
like this:

bash-3.2# bless -info /Volumes 
finderinfo[0]: 660564 => Blessed System Folder is /Users/grante/grub
finderinfo[1]: 660651 => Blessed System File is /Users/grante/grub/grub.efi
finderinfo[2]:      0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]:      0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder
finderinfo[4]:      0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]: 660564 => OS X blessed folder is /Users/grante/grub
64-bit VSDB volume id:  0x21144BD3838779F5

bash-3.2# nvram -p
SystemAudioVolume       s
efi-boot-device-data    
%02%01%0c%00%d0A%03%0a%00%00%00%00%01%01%06%00%02%1f%03%12%0a%00%02%00%00%00%00%00%04%01*%00%02%00%00%00(@address@hidden>%0d%02%02%7f%ff%04%00
platform-uuid   %00%00%00%00%00%00%10%00%80%00%00%1f%f3FC%d0
efi-boot-device 
<array><dict><key>IOMatch</key><dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict><key>UUID</key><string>8B3F9B77-B7D0-4000-8F6F-C72D0DEB3E0D</string></dict></dict><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string>disk0s2</string></dict></array>%00


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