Bug#427492: grub-efi: method to 'bless' ?

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Wed Aug 20 04:49:36 UTC 2008


Hi,

> > I had the unfortunate incident that MacBook HDD blew up while at
> > Debconf, and without a Mac OS X installation disk, I could not set up
> > refit, and I had to resort to PC compatibility mode.
> >
> > I didn't know about efibootmgr, it might be what I was looking for,
> > but it doesn't seem to work with default lenny kernel that I have
> > installed right now. hmmm ....
> 
> Hi,
> 
> efibootmgr can only be used when boot from efi, it's not available in
> bios boot mode. BTW, it seems the latest version of refit can be
> burned as a bootable CD, perhaps you can try that.


I'm currently on an extended trip and not easy for me to check it out,
and I'm not booting off EFI.  Could someone with a working system
confirm this?

regards, 
	 junichi
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dancer@{netfort.gr.jp,debian.org}





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