Re: Assortment of Issues with EFI on Mac

[Jake Thomas]

Thank you Vladimir for the theory about Grub loading the _correct_ Linux kernel 
file and the _correct_ initrd file, but Linux then going on to use the wrong 
partition. I can rest a lot more easy with that theory; mine was kind-of 
paranormal.

What would be a situation where I boot Grub off my thumb drive and Grub doesn't 
consider the thumb drive the first hard disk?

I'm not 100% certain if we are on the same page with the whole normal mod 
thing. I built an EFI image file, and the EFI actually interprets the 
filesystem this file is on and actually boots the file, rather than raw-reading 
code off the hard drive, like from the MBR and the rest of track0. I don't see 
what grub-install would do for me in this situation, since the only purpose it 
has that I know of is to raw-write Grub code to non-file places on the hard 
drive such as track0. I compiled Grub 1.99 from source, built an EFI image file 
with grub-mkimage, and copied the files over. If I don't compile normal.mod 
into the image with grub-mkimage, how do I get Grub to load my config file?

I'll try again with the vertical space thing. Maybe it went away from 1.98 to 
1.99.

Regards,
Jake

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