On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Dan <ganc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Carsten Mattner > <carstenmatt...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Has anyone successfully installed Debian as a single boot system >> on an EFI Mac? > > What is the advantage of booting Linux directly with EFI instead of > using rEfit? The performance is improved if the system is booted with > EFI? Or it is just that it will boot up faster. I do not have a mac, > but I might buy one and install Debian.
It can be faster because you would directly boot into grub2-efi or with a newer kernel directly boot the kernel image. I gave up with EFI for the moment and am using rEFIt. > Is the Macbook pro 100% compatible with EFI 2.0? I don't know what EFI 2.0 is. Macs usually have Mac EFI which is not the same as UEFI. Newer Macs have 64bit EFI. > I also heard that if you boot directly with EFI, the video card will > not work properly. That can happen. I don't know the details but it may be chipset specific. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CACY+HvqkGTXfijkkKt61MDo=p-fqgvuzscj+j6+r9kfx-ce...@mail.gmail.com
