Re: [Mactel-linux-users] grub-efi configuration

[Tino K. <tin...@ti...>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 14:05:54 +0200, mike dentifrice wrote:

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> 
> So far, everything seems to be working : efifb provides a nice
> textmode console, and X.org using the 'intel' driver runs seemingly
> just as fast as when legacy booted (judging by the output of
> glxgears).

I didn't try efifb. I just use the DRM framebuffer along with kernel
mode setting, which is also used by the native Intel driver in Xorg.

> However, a few questions remain for me:
> - what are the actual advantages and drawbacks from booting in EFI on
>   such a platform?

You don't have to mess around with gptsync, which is limited to 4
partitions.  And in my setup, it created a dummy partition before the
EFI partition, lowering the limit to 3.  Also, there is no delay at
boot time which is caused by the legacy BIOS.

> - where is it best to put the grub.efi EFI application? is it advised to
>   have it sit on the first EFI system partition, within the EFI folder?
> - if not, where?

I created a small HFS+ partition only for grub. It has no journal, so I
can also write it in Linux to update grub or modify grub.cfg.

Regards,
Tino