-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30.01.2007, at 23:45, Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:55:19PM +0100, Christoph Pfisterer wrote: > >> I know that most people don't care about EFI-based booting (i.e. >> elilo), but just in case there is anyone lingering on this list that >> does, here's something for you to play with. > > I'm still quite interested it. I stopped using last month because I > needed the external video port for a conference (which worked under > the > VESA and proprietary ATI drivers with the legacy bios) and because the > shadowfb bug is painful, but I'd like to switch back. Good to hear! >> Under the umbrella of the rEFIt project, I have developed additional >> file system drivers for the EFI environment. ext2/ext3 and ReiserFS >> are usable, and I've started work on ISO9660. These drivers are read- >> only by design and pretty limited, but they are sufficient for >> booting and there's a framework that makes it easy to add more file >> systems. > > Is there a quickstart for using these somewhere? I tried the ext2 > driver > when you first announced it, but couldn't figure out how to address > the > proper partition from the refit command line. When the EFI shell starts, it prints a list of detected file systems and block devices. You can get that list again at any time with the "map" command. (You may want to run "map -b" to get paged output.) File systems are named "fs0:", "fs1:" and so on, and the shell uses DOS-style drive changing. Once you have changed to a specific volume, "vol" will give you some information on it like the volume label. An example with prompts: Shell> fs2: fs2:\> vol fs2:\> ls fs2:\> cd boot fs2:\boot> ls fs2:\boot> elilo ELILO boot: Hope this helps, chrisp - -- chrisp a.k.a. Christoph Pfisterer "To understand a program [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://chrisp.de you must become both the PGP key & geek code available machine and the program." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFwD7Vr/EAHkwpC28RAhrPAJ49jT1B9nBrBXmNHeASz9qJLrPCBwCguy8K RHFl0WURTH/5K1WfbZriBhY= =kOWE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-devel mailing list Mactel-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-devel
