On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 04:19:13PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote:
What I have been wondering about now is, if it will be possible to install Arch without rEFIt and the Mac OS X at all? I read a lot in the wiki pages, but all I found was that if I install Arch only with EFI support I will have to install GRUB2. And on the page about GRUB2 I read, that I will have to bless GRUB2 from OS X...
It's my understanding that with linux 3.3, it's possible to get EFI to boot straight to linux. I don't know the specifics - I mean to give it a stab early this weekend. If I still have a working computer afterwords, I'll let you know what happens (provided nobody else interjects with something more useful).
Thanks, looking forward to it.
My cd writer is apparently dead (gets to 60-80% and dies), so I'll be contributing no useful information. Sorry
Too bad. Apple drive? Seems that the drives break really that often.
However, it seems that using an archboot[1] livecd[2] is the way to go - a simple install should give you grub2 properly set up, and from there it's just a matter of configuration.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot [2] http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/pub/archlinux/iso/archboot/2012.01/
I stumbled upon the Archboot disks, but I haven't been sure if it would be an option, because I read somewhere that they are not officially supported.
By the way, if you intend to go the dwm/xmonad route, I've created a version of pommed (the hotkeys handler) with unnecessary dbus/wmaker/gnome/ambient-light-sensor support torn out, along with the bugs it had. pommed-light in AUR. The main version of pommed tends to sit at 2% CPU usage because it's constantly polling the ambient light sensor, and it can't tolerate dbus not being running.
I will take a look, sounds good.
Good luck.
Thanks!