Jason Fleischli <jason.fleisc...@hp.com> wrote: Hi,
> It looks like Debian would be best to default to Grub for Macs for the > best graphics functionality and my understanding of it today is that > rEFIt is not even required. One can just run a Linux installer cd, > install linux, and then hold the "option" button during Mac power on to > choose between OS X and Linux. But I have to believe that legacy BIOS Yes - but any partition with a legacy bootloader is identified as "Windows" by Apple's GUI choser, which is very confusing. Also having to hold down the option key is a bother as the machine can't boot without the user attending. Additionally, rEFIt comes with a set of EFI tools, of which gptsync can save you if you do some partitioning changes and forget to run gptsync from the OS before rebooting. > mode will be deprecated at some point in the future otherwise whats > the point of even using UEFI? I have also learned that grub2 has efi The legacy BIOS will remain on Apple machines until Windows supports EFI or Mac OS X overtakes Windows in terms of marketshare, whichever comes first. All in all, that's a couple years from now. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <jbla...@debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
