[arch-general] grub2 efi image files

[Keshav P R]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:10, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmattner at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I could swear that some time back some version of archboot media
> gave me the choice to select grub2-efi-32-bit.
>
> Was this dropped?
>

Yes it was removed wrt booting the iso from 32-bit EFI. But the setup
script still supports installing grub2-efi-i386 if you can download
the package.

>
> I've been trying to install arch only (single boot) on a EFI-32 mac.
> Due to not being able to convinve (bless) rEFIt without having OS X
> installed to not come up with a delay of >= 20seconds, I wanted to
> use EFI.
>

Can you try https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54847 ?

> The mac has onboard intel i915 graphics which I know to work
> out of the box. Would this give me any issues like the nvidia guys
> with using EFI?
>

No idea. Non-Mac UEFI user here (with ATI card).

> What is the exact issue I have to be careful about to not brick the
> firmware with EFI? I know I shouldn't use efitbootmgr on mac efi.
> What else is dangerous?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carsten

Regards.

Keshav