Bug#381576: Fails on MacBook Pro

[Colin Watson]

tags 381576 patch
thanks

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:26:19AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Package: grub-installer
> Version: 1.17
> 
> When I try to install GRUB on /dev/sda3 in a MacBook Pro, it fails
> with the following output:
> 
>  grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda3'
>  grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
>  grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target /sbin/grub-install --recheck --no-floppy "/dev/sda3"
>  grub-installer: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
>  grub-installer: The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
>  grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --recheck --no-floppy "/dev/sda3"' failed.

I would strongly suggest integrating
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2006-07/msg00037.html; it
makes Intel Mac support in GRUB significantly less painful by supporting
GPT partition tables directly. The patch is relatively small, looks sane
to me, and works on my Intel iMac. I've integrated it into the Ubuntu
grub package as of version 0.97-20ubuntu3, so you can grab it from there
if you don't want to have to deal with unmunging the HTML from the
lists.gnu.org archives.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]