Re: Assortment of Issues with EFI on Mac

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 31.12.2011 20:46, Jake Thomas wrote:
> 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?
Firmware tells GRUB which disk it booted from.
> 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?
grub-mkstandalone or grub-install takes care of all. normal.mod is 
either left on normal fs or compressed into a tar and put on memdisk
> I'll try again with the vertical space thing. Maybe it went away from 1.98 to 
> 1.99.
Old versions had a problem with spaces after braces
> Regards,
> Jake
>
> Sent from my iPhone


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko