Re: grub in mac

[Peter Cheung]

Let me checkout why the code fail, please wait

> Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> 於 2015年11月14日 下午9:10 寫道：
> 
> 14.11.2015 07:48, address@hidden пишет:
>> I fixed the problem, the root cause is : the following if-loop is never be 
>> true in apple
> 
> Please explain. Your logs clearly show that special in mount point is 
> character device, so this is obviously true in this case (and for mount point 
> device size was also correct).
> 
> Did you try using /dev/rdisk as install device as I suggested?
> 
>> 
>> #if GRUB_DISK_DEVS_ARE_CHAR
>>  if (S_ISCHR (st.st_mode))
>> #else
>>  if (S_ISBLK (st.st_mode))
>> #endif
>>    ret = grub_util_get_fd_size_os (fd, name, log_secsize);
>> 
>> 
>> So i force the line "ret = grub_util_get_fd_size_os (fd, name, 
>> log_secsize);” to be execute, then everything work. I am using this command 
>> "hdiutil attach -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage -nomount hd.img” to 
>> mount my loopback.
>> 
>> thanks
>> from Peter
>> 
>> 
>>> Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> 於 2015年11月13日 上午2:13 寫道：
>>> 
>>> 12.11.2015 13:16, address@hidden пишет:
>>>> I am in mac, grub called grub_util_get_fd_size() in unix/hostdisk.c, 
>>>> should i copy it to apple/hostdisk.c and fix the bug?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Apparently GRUB expects char devices on Apple. Try
>>> 
>>> grub-install ... /dev/rdisk2
>>> 
>>> instead. If it does not work, please send verbose log again.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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