[arch-general] grub2 efi image files

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 13 12:54:20 EDT 2012


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Keshav P R <the.ridikulus.rat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Do I have to chroot to the installed partition and install it
from extras?

Why not keep it on the medium?

> script still supports installing grub2-efi-i386 if you can download
> the package.

What is the support, if it's removed? I don't understand that.

>> 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 ?

I can use Apple's bless command, but will try that if Apple's doesn't
work. Don't want to risk bricking the firmware.


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