Re: FW: grub-efi with latest mac mini

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 08.06.2012 19:35, John Frankish wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: address@hidden [mailto:grub-devel-
>> address@hidden On Behalf Of Vladimir 'f-
>> coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>> Sent: Friday, 08 June, 2012 19:29
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: FW: grub-efi with latest mac mini
>>
>>
>>> As per above, usb_keyboard was linked via grub-mkimage - the
>>> keyboard/mouse do not work with/without any usb modules
>>> --------------------------------------
>>> I compiled grub from bzr a couple of days back.
>>>
>>> I didn't use grub-install as I'm nervous about writing to the mbr and not
>> being able to boot the mac mini at all.
>>
>> If you don't supply any direct argument and explicitly add 
>> --target=x86_64-efi
>> then you can be sure it won't overwrite any MBR
> 
> I tried "grub-install --target= x86_64-efi", but got an error that grub 
> couldn't write to /boot/grub
> 

First: no space after --target. Second: are you at latest bzr? Third: if
you paraphrase errors, I can't give you any good answer.

>>>
>>> Anyway, I can still boot using both hfs+ partition /efi/grub/grub.efi and 
>>> fat
>> partition /EFI/BOOT/ BOOTX64.EFI, but the result is the same - no usb
>> keyboard and no usb mouse.
>>>
>>
>> Aa I said before: lack of USB keyboard/mouse in Linux can't be of any GRUB
>> wrongdoing since Linux uses its own USB driver.
>>
>>> Note that I also do not get graphics, but it boots "blind" without problems.
>>>
>>
>> Does videotest work?
>>
> I get command not found?

As I said: use grub-install
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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