RE: FW: grub-efi with latest mac mini

[John Frankish]

> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: address@hidden
> >> [mailto:grub-devel-
> >> address@hidden On Behalf Of Vladimir 'f-
> >> coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> >> Sent: Friday, 08 June, 2012 19:29
> >> To: address@hidden
> >> Subject: Re: FW: grub-efi with latest mac mini
> >>
> >>
> >>> As per above, usb_keyboard was linked via grub-mkimage - the
> >>> keyboard/mouse do not work with/without any usb modules
> >>> --------------------------------------
> >>> I compiled grub from bzr a couple of days back.
> >>>
> >>> I didn't use grub-install as I'm nervous about writing to the mbr
> >>> and not
> >> being able to boot the mac mini at all.
> >>
> >> If you don't supply any direct argument and explicitly add
> >> --target=x86_64-efi then you can be sure it won't overwrite any MBR
> >
> > I tried "grub-install --target= x86_64-efi", but got an error that
> > grub couldn't write to /boot/grub
> >
> 
> First: no space after --target. Second: are you at latest bzr? Third: if you
> paraphrase errors, I can't give you any good answer.

Sorry, there was no space and I used bzr from a couple of days ago, I get:

Path /boot/grub is not readable by grub on boot. Installation is impossible. 
Aborting

I also get this if I use --boot-directory=/efi/boot

> >>>
> >>> Anyway, I can still boot using both hfs+ partition
> >>> /efi/grub/grub.efi and fat
> >> partition /EFI/BOOT/ BOOTX64.EFI, but the result is the same - no usb
> >> keyboard and no usb mouse.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Aa I said before: lack of USB keyboard/mouse in Linux can't be of any
> >> GRUB wrongdoing since Linux uses its own USB driver.
> >>
> >>> Note that I also do not get graphics, but it boots "blind" without
> problems.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Does videotest work?
> >>
> > I get command not found?
> 
The insmod command must have been wrong, I get:

No suitable video modes found