Last time I tried, GRUB on EFI could not initialise hardware accelerated video drivers (my nvidia driver). GRUB on emulated BIOS worked, though.
I just got my laptop back, I should be able to test this as well. 2009/5/29 Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com>: > On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB boot > methods. A few weeks ago an Ubuntu developer posted > (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704&page=77) a "fat" .EFI > boot file compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Macs. Ubuntu > has a useful matrix of compatible Macs at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages#Determine%20your%20model%20and%20hardware%20revision > > There are other possibilities too, such as: > http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/booting/efiboot > > And, GRUB info for booting Linux on Mac: > http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnEFI also > http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook > > > To my mind, it's worth investigating these solutions (based on a > clickable icon OSX bash script on the SoaS USB stick, containing the > bless command but requiring admin rights) since the result will be > very easy to use and won't touch the hard disk. > > Sean > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:23, Luke Faraone <l...@faraone.cc> wrote: >>> 2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks <solutiongr...@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what >>>>> you are trying to accomplish? >>>> >>>> I think this is Ticket 598 to support the Gardner Pilot. the use case is >>>> here: >>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Critical_Path_Technical_Issues >>> >>> Yes, that's an accurate description of the goals for this project. >>> >>> An installable boot helper would provide functionality not avaliable in a >>> normal boot-helper ISO, namely increasing boot time (time between a student >>> inserting a SoaS stick and getting up and running) in addition to less >>> down-time in between switches (as the machine would be able switch to >>> another user/SoaS stick without rebooting). >>> >>> It would also be trivial to enable features such as on-server backups, live >>> SoaS upgrades and repairs, and centralized administration by the IT staff. >>> >>> The boot-helper is related to a new installer method for this reason: our >>> current method of formatting and installing SoaS on USB sticks cannot be >>> read by the boot-helper. LVM snapshots are difficult to read outside of the >>> context (in this case the kernel used in SoaS) in which they were created. >>> Therefore, I suggested that we simply have raw EXT3/whatever on the flash >>> drive, and mount them directly rather than using LVM. >> >> Sounds very good, do we have a timeframe already for testing the first >> results from this project? >> >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> >>> -- >>> Luke Faraone >>> http://luke.faraone.cc >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel