On Monday, 28. April 2008, 22:21, Jeremy Huntwork (as JH) wrote: >JH: Careful what 'facts' you spread around here. With the switch to >JH: Intel machines, Apple also changed their firmware and boot manager. >JH: If your mac is intel it uses EFI, not Open Firmware. Yaboot is not >JH: the answer.
I have an older Mac mini with a G4 processor. This boots with yaboot. But as you mention, the new Intel should boot with grub. >JH: Also note that he already tested grub on the machine using ubuntu >JH: and claims that it does work with their version. I saw it with my own eyes :-) >JH: Andreas, you may want to try to track down what differences there >JH: are between Ubuntu's grub and what LFS installs. Or, you could >JH: consider using Lilo instead. :) I use Lilo on my Intel macs (mostly >JH: because I build a 64-bit system) and it works great. If I don't find an answer within reasonable time, I'll try it. As far as I remember from earlier times, Lilo has to be reinstalled after each Kernel update, is this still the case? >JH: Also, if you ever feel like dual (or triple booting) your mac with >JH: OS X check out http://refit.sourceforge.net. It's a really useful >JH: tool. I already tried rEFIt, just to make sure, but I couldn't use it, even though I can't remember the reason anymore. And no, I don't need dual boot. Thanks, I'll try Lilo if everything else fails. Andreas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
