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From: Jens Axboe on 19 Jul 2010 23:10
On 07/19/2010 06:47 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe(a)fusionio.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I've never used it.. I was more delivering the message that Fedora's
> grub supports efi ;)
>
> I found these, but no official fedora installation docs (that I could find):
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI
> http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2009/12/using-uefi-duet-to-boot-fedora-12.html
> http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/07/23/linux-on-an-apple-xserve-efi-only-machine/
>
> 'man grub.efi' would be awesome but no such luck...
>
> Cc'ing Peter who should be able to steer you in the right direction.

Thanks for the pointers, I'll take it off list at this point, it's getting somewhat
off topic :-)

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Jens Axboe

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