[arch-general] grub2 efi image files

[Carsten Mattner]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Keshav P R <the.ridikulus.rat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 22:24, Carsten Mattner
> <carstenmattner at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> No. You just have to be connected to net while installing because
> Archboot will pull the package from the repos and install it for you
> automatically.
>
>> Why not keep it on the medium?
>>
>
> It is not present in the iso because very few systems have 32-bit EFI.
> Thats also the reason why 32-bit EFI booting support was removed from
> the iso, so reduce space.
>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> The installer script (/arch/setup) supports grub2-efi-i386
> installation. But the iso itself will not boot in EFI mode in 32-bit
> EFI, and the package is not present in the iso (so you need to be
> connected to net)

OK, so what do I have to use grub2-efi?
Try to enable extras (if I can) and install it and then it will
magically show up in the bootloader step?

>>>> 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.
>
> efibootmgr (and efivars module) may brick the firmware, but i don't
> think bless or mactel-boot will corrupt it since they modify only at a
> filesystem level.
>
> Regards.
>
> Keshav