Hi Thibaut, I actually have successfully gotten my Mac Mini 6,1 to boot via Grub 2. I used these instructions:
http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2830 ...adapted for my machine. Note that I don't dual boot: it's Ubuntu only. I also created a PPA for the hfs-bless utility here: https://launchpad.net/~detly/+archive/mactel-utils ...and the packaging source is here: https://github.com/detly/mactel-boot Let me know if you have any questions :) — Jason Heeris On 3 April 2014 07:52, Israel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/01/2014 07:18 AM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Dear Ubuntu Mactel team members, > > We have created a [1]team at Debian with the same goal as yours, > although it does seem that we have much less man-power than you do. The > primary purpose of this mail is to introduce ourselves. > > Ideally, I would like to incorporate all the nice work that you do into > Debian. > > I have a specific question for you: I am trying to package everything > necessary to configure macbooks with hybrid graphics to boot in EFI > mode. Do you have any experience with this? I personally [2]succeeded > rather well, but in a very hacky manner which cannot be packaged as > such. Did you manage it better in Ubuntu? > > [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mactel/ > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741438 > > Kind regards, Thibaut. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > Hi Thibaut, > > I personally have not had success using Grub and EFI... I actually had to > use rEFInd from MacOSX in order to get to Ubuntu. But, my machine is > older, and does not have hybrid graphics, only nvidia. > > I would really like to figure out how to use Grub2 as the main boot > mechanism... but I would also like to use the nouveau drivers and still > suspend/resume. :) > I have a 3,1 Macbook so if you would like me to test something on it I > would be glad to help if you need. > I would also like to circumvent using rEFInd and use only Grub2-efi if > possible > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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