[clug] People save my bacon again!

Paul Warren pwarren at pwarren.id.au
Fri Sep 13 01:09:56 CEST 2013


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> In regards to EFI booting that a guy asked about (Sorry, I don't 
> remember your name!) on my macbook air. The debian 7 install ISOs
> come with an EFI bootloader, so if you boot the image via EFI,
> it'll automatically install grub2 in EFI mode.
> 
> To change from rEFIt or similar bios emulation, follow something
> like: http://mennucc1.debian.net/macbook_linux_efi.html
> 
> Which amounts to, installing grub-efi-amd64 (or grub-efi on i386),
> and making a vfat partition, mounted at /efi, copying the right
> stuff in, and rebooting :)
> 
> Here's another howto for reference: 
> http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article51/debian-efi

Oh, and I forgot the last bit, once you've got everything set up, to
get rid of the 30second white screen, boot to a MacOS installer, Bring
up a terminal and run:


bless --device /dev/disk0s1 --setBoot --verbose


Substituting disk0s1 for your actual /efi partition.

- --
Paul.
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