Re: EFI Boot on MacPro

[Bean]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Türker SEZER <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 08:39:49 Bean wrote:
>> If the grub menu doesn't show at all, it's probably because efi
>> firmware is 64-bit, perhaps you can try the x86_64-efi version.
>
> I couldnt compile grub2 with x86_64-efi parameter. It gives error
> like 'configure: error: platform "x86_64-efi" is not supported for target
> CPU "i386"' or 'CPU "x86_64"' etc.
>
> I tried to use
>
> ./configure --with-platform=x86_64-efi  and
> ./configure --with-platform=x86_64-efi --target=x86_64-apple
>
>
> I have
> 32 bit Pardus Linux installed on Intel Core 2 Duo T 5750,
> 32 bit Pardus Linux installed on Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180,
> 64 bit Fedora Linux installed on AMD Athlon 64 Proccessor 3000+ and
> 64 bit MacOS X Server Leopard installed on 8-core Intel Xserve.
>
>
> Could you tell me how can i compile grub2 as usable and which machine is
> suitable to compile grub2 with these parameters.
>
>
> I wanna test grub2 on 64bit efi firmware and give you feedback about it. May
> be i can also help developing of grub with this work.

Hi,

You can find more information in the following wiki page:

http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

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Bean