On 8/31/18 2:41 PM, Mick wrote: > > What I have not fathomed yet is how to compile into the mach_kernel the > vmlinuz and initrd the boot.efi uses to boot linux. :-/ >
(Note that I am making assumptions that the Apple TV 1st gen can be treated kind of like a Mac.) You probably should try rEFInd to help. You can get rid of it once you are comfortable. rEFInd can be avoided: https://glandium.org/blog/?p=2830 This is what I used years back on a MacBook Pro but I was not successful in getting an EFI stub to boot correctly. The issue was a bug with USB 2/3 initialisation or something at the time in the kernel, which you probably won't run into. I had to use the BIOS emulation which you might have the ability to do. So it was rEFInd -> BIOS emulation (calls it Windows) -> LILO (GRUB didn't work) and then Linux. Here is what it looked like (holding C at boot time): https://i.imgtc.com/jjBY8AF.jpg (OS is macOS, "Windows" CD in the picture was just Gentoo live CD). Your problem can be made simpler if you have a) no desire to dual-boot and b) no disk encryption. This would mean you only have your VFAT partition for EFI and your main partition. -- Andrew
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