Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
> For different reason, we MacBook user use Legacy MBR data to boot > system using grub-pc (legacy MBR bootloader) since EFI does not work > well per: http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook > > * grub-efi is in sid but it doesn't work as of 18 October 2008 (Bug: bug > 429695 bug 427492). > * elilo does not work (Bug: #376002) For the sake of correctness, the reason for still relying on legacy BIOS boot on the Intel Macs has nothing to do with either grub-efi or elilo (both can be fixed, and recent changes to efifb even alleviate the need, though some changes still need to be done to both elilo and grub-efi). The real issue is that a direct EFI boot will leave you without a video BIOS, which means no 3D acceleration. And I'm sure you want 3D acceleration. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
