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From: Mike Snitzer on 19 Jul 2010 13:30
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe(a)fusionio.com> wrote:
> On 07/19/2010 09:53 AM, Tino Keitel wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:49:49 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Great! That sounds way better. DO you have a pointer to grub-efi? I'm
>>> finding some grub2 efi stuff with google, just want to make sure that is
>>> it. A grub 0.9x with efi would be preferable, I find grub2 to be horrible
>>> to work with in general...
>>
>> With grub-efi I meant the EFI support in grub2. AFAIK grub 0.9x never
>> supported EFI.
>>
>> What information do you need?
>
> Just that, if there was some special grub 0.9x efi variant or whether
> you meant grub2 when you said grub-efi.

Fedora's grub 0.9x has efi support.

But that efi support hasn't been propagated to all the other distros
since grub 0.9x really doesn't have an upstream.

Mike
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From: Jens Axboe on 19 Jul 2010 16:50
On 07/19/2010 11:23 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe(a)fusionio.com> wrote:
>> On 07/19/2010 09:53 AM, Tino Keitel wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:49:49 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> Great! That sounds way better. DO you have a pointer to grub-efi? I'm
>>>> finding some grub2 efi stuff with google, just want to make sure that is
>>>> it. A grub 0.9x with efi would be preferable, I find grub2 to be horrible
>>>> to work with in general...
>>>
>>> With grub-efi I meant the EFI support in grub2. AFAIK grub 0.9x never
>>> supported EFI.
>>>
>>> What information do you need?
>>
>> Just that, if there was some special grub 0.9x efi variant or whether
>> you meant grub2 when you said grub-efi.
>
> Fedora's grub 0.9x has efi support.
>
> But that efi support hasn't been propagated to all the other distros
> since grub 0.9x really doesn't have an upstream.

This is Fedora 13. What magic do I need to enable the EFI grub bits
then?

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