On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:35 -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 10:09 -0600, Jason Fleischli wrote: > > After some discussion with Bdale and taking a step back I came to the > > realization that I probably made a mistake with this decision and > > am re-evaluating it. I'm committing now to do a test build with the > > patch and as long as it does not break legacy ia64 I'll get it in as > > quickly as I can. > > Thanks! > > Bdale So this (and my bug backlog) is completed and assuming I have successful testing results on the MAC (which im setting up now) I will start the 3.12 release today. But after a bit more research its almost a mute point. rEFIt documentation claimes elilo is not required to boot Linux on Macs.
The rEFIt documentation actually recommends using rEFIt plus LILO or Grub with the default hyprid GPT/MBR partition setup because those loaders use the legacy BIOS modules that have been included in Apple Mac firmware since 2006 which is the ONLY way to run Linux on Macs and have accelerated graphics. In fact this is what UBUNTU installer does even with my x86_64 UEFI 2.0 box (although on this box, which is Intel, I use elilo + nvidia fully accelerated, but grub works accelerated as well so Intel must have provided legacy BIOS hooks as well). rEFIt plus elilo gets you going but with software video(out of elilo's control) so looks like it is not the most desirable way or simplest way to run Linux on a MAC. It looks like Debian would be best to default to Grub for Macs for the best graphics functionality and my understanding of it today is that rEFIt is not even required. One can just run a Linux installer cd, install linux, and then hold the "option" button during Mac power on to choose between OS X and Linux. But I have to believe that legacy BIOS mode will be deprecated at some point in the future otherwise whats the point of even using UEFI? I have also learned that grub2 has efi capability running in its BETA today so Im sure it will be in fully baked status when that future comes and then finally everybody can standardize on one loader which will be fantastic. grub has always been superior to elilo in terms of usability and functionality in my opinion as elilo was a hurry up get it done design to get Linux on Itanium running as soon as was possible, no disrespect to Stephan Eranian whatsover. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
