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Re: grub-efi with latest mac mini
From: |
Chris Murphy |
Subject: |
Re: grub-efi with latest mac mini |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:34:48 -0600 |
a.) Mac Mini's EFI implementation can use either MBR or GPT schemes for booting.
b.) If this is a dual boot situation, Mac OS X is EFI only, effectively
requires GPT and an EFI System partition. Your particular Linux distribution
support of Apple's unique EFI, which is not UEFI, determines whether you will
boot Linux or Windows or whatever you're booting, either in EFI mode, or CSM
(BIOS emulation) mode.
c.) If CSM is required for the foreign OS, and this particular Mac mini, then
GRUB2 EFI is inapplicable. You'd use GRUB2. And it necessarily means the nasty
situation of hybrid MBR (disk appears to be MBR to the foreign OS, and appears
to be GPT to Mac OS).
d.) The only distributions I know that reliably support EFI booting some Mac
models is Fedora 17 and Ubuntu 12. But it's hit or miss on which models will
work and which ones won't.
Chris Murphy
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