Re: x86_64 EFI support for grub2 ?

[Isaac Dupree]

Bean wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Isaac Dupree
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > (oh, since I'm running a 32-bit Linux on my 64-bit machine right now, I'm
> > not sure if I'll actually be a useful tester?)
>
> BTW, it's really easy to test efi image with the latest refit. Just
> install refit 0.11 in OS X, and it would be used as the default boot
> manager. Then, copy an efi image to / or /efi/xxxx/ of any
> fat/ext2/ext3/hfs+/reiserfs partition (remember to install the fs
> module, though), and it show up automatically in the boot menu.
>
> You can verify it with refit 0.9 which use ia32 image. Download the
> binary package, extract refit.efi to the root directory, and it should
> be in the menu. When you choose it, it would say unsupported image.

(refit 0.9 worked for me in OSX, I don't remember whether I'm using 0.9 
or 0.10 right now)

But I'm sure I was building an ia32 grub2, and refit quite happily 
loaded that image -- it was just was in grub2 "rescue mode" for that old 
efi grub2.

And I meant that if I had to compile anything grub2, I wasn't sure if a 
32bit Linux could make a 64bit grub efi image.. but if you can make the 
image, then no problem at all!

-Isaac