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Currently I have rEFIt installed in OS X "Leopard"; rEFIt can boot a "grub legacy" installed inside /dev/sda3 (that is my /boot partitition, ext3 fs); then grub loads linux and the initrd, and then I have to enter passwords because my root and home partitions are crypted LUKS partitions (that initrd has to unlock) So this is what I did, using a i386 Debian Lenny installed inside a Apple MacBook (version 5.1, aluminium case). 1) I downloaded the latest grub Debian packaging from svn.debian.org 2) I compiled my own grub Debian packages (I used the 20090603 orig.tar.gz since I do not have the 20090606; and I coupled that with the latest debian/ from above SVN) 3) I installed the resulting packages 'grub-common' and 'grub-efi-amd64' 4) I mounted the EFI hidden partition using 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt' 4) I run 'grub-install --root-directory=/mnt' 5) I renamed 'mv /mnt/boot/grub /mnt/efi/' since otherwise rEFIt does not see it 6) I copied the linux kernel and initrd from /boot to /mnt (that is, from /dev/sda3 to /dev/sda1) 6) At boot, I choose the first option that rEFIt lists, and that is "Boot EFI\grub\grub.efi from EFI" so I get into the grub2 shell 7) from within the grub shell, I can load the linux kernel and the initrd, and boot the linux kernel, (that is vmlinux-2.6.26-2-686 : it is a 32bit kernel) 8) the kernel boots fine AFAICT and then it passes to the initrd; but when the initrd asks my root/home passwords , it turns out that the keyboard is not working So the above seems to show that I _can_ boot a 32bit kernel from a EFI/grub 64bit I am doing other tests that I will report separately. a. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkouXgEACgkQ9B/tjjP8QKQwoACdFietSxd4nvzjOM9Tw2cf2ME3 pZYAn2Om1PkNZZmoxWRNugoD8OqfJDJi =rX4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
