Re: booting Lenny on Intel MacMini with grub-efi WITHOUT OS X partition

2008-09-17 Thread Guillaume Delacour
Hi, I think you have a mac intel like me and i experienced problem with grub (not efi version, i have to test it, maybe it works): he can boot anymore Lenny. You can use lilo for booting (works here). This is my functionnal partitionned iMac Intel disk: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk -l /d

Re: booting Lenny on Intel MacMini with grub-efi WITHOUT OS X partition

2008-09-17 Thread Brendan Simon
Maybe I need a small HFS+ partition for efi applications, so that the Mac firmware can read it ??? i.e. similar to the PowerPC Macs where a small HFS partition is required for the YABOOT OpenFirmware application. I'd like to avoid having a separate bootloader partition if possible? Does anyone

booting Lenny on Intel MacMini with grub-efi WITHOUT OS X partition

2008-09-17 Thread Brendan Simon
I have installed Lenny on an Intel Mac Mini, but can't get it to boot from the hard disk :( I blew away the OS X partition (intentionally). I just want Linux on it and nothing else. I chose the single partition option with LVM during installation. My net-inst CD is a little old (08-MAR-200