On Sunday 28 April 2013 10:29 AM, Matias A. Fonzo wrote:
El Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:01:25 +0530
Aditya Pareek<[email protected]> escribió:
Hello Aditya,
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: feature request : EFI support for dragora 3
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:03:02 +0530
From: Aditya Pareek<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
hello everyone , i started using dragora 2.2 a few months back and
until now its been the most fulfilling *nix experience i have ever
had , i am veteran debian user who is seeking refuge in dragora's
community and from what i have experienced until now i think i am
gonna stay :)
Glad to hear that. :-)
since i have an apple macbookpro which needs EFI to boot an OS , thus
its currently a pain to use tools like rEFIt etc to successfully boot
dragora independently without setting up GRUB-EFI on a GPT partition
or to use a rEFIt CD for booting dragora. kindly note that i am only
running dragora on this mac no OS X
so its a 100% freesoftware setup.
and considering that all new PC hardware also comes with UEFI now
makes it all the more important to support it.
Sure.
since dragora 3 is under active development right now i thought
putting up a request for adding
out of the box EFI support wouldn't hurt :)
and although i might not be of much help implementing this technically
still if there is anything that i might help the devs with for the
matter please feel free to involve me in the matter :)
You can provide more information about what we need to have the EFI
support in place?.
Happy Hacking everyone
Aditya Pareek (apm)
Thanks,
Matias.
hi Matias,
i tried setting up dragora on a GPT layout partitioned disk which i set
up using "gnu parted", i followed the info in this thread and it worked
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38164/create-partition-aligned-using-parted
then i installed Dragora without a bootloader and with "/boot" and "/"
partitions only , i then booted from an EFI enabled Debian wheezy
liveUSB stick i have to chroot into the dragora install and from the
chroot i set up GRUB-EFI on the "/boot" partition with "grub-install
/dev/HDa1" and then i exited the chroot and rebooted from the HD
and it worked .
hope this hack might help you with modifying the installer for EFI
support :)
regards
Aditya Pareek (apm)
