Bug#546351: grub-efi: Grub-efi lacks any documentation

[Felix Zielcke]

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Am Samstag, den 12.09.2009, 18:30 +0100 schrieb John Winters:
> Package: grub-efi
> Version: 1.96+20080724-16
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> The grub-efi package seems to be intended to allow Debian to be
> booted on Intel-based Macs - e.g. a Mac mini.  However it lacks
> any documentation about how you can do this.  There are references
> to a general page on the EFI component of Grub2, but the package as
> built does not match this page and the user is left scrabbling in
> the dark.
> 
> Just a one page basic HOWTO would greatly improve the usefulness
> of this package.  I'd offer to write it but I'm still struggling
> to discover how the package can be used.
> 
> This package could potentially be extremely useful, given the
> well known problems trying to boot Mac minis headless using
> the legacy BIOS boot facility.
> 

With `general page' above you mean these 2 Wiki sites?
http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnEFI
http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

The problem is, that neither Robert nor me has any EFI system so we have
to rely on upstream (or other people) for the documentation about that.

You can just install the sid version under lenny. There's no need for a
backport.
I'd recommend it anyway, we fixed many many things since the lenny
version.
Note that we split the grub-efi package now into grub-efi-amd64 and
grub-efi-ia32 because the first Macbooks with a 64bit CPU have a 32bit
EFI, which can't load 64bit GRUB-EFI.

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Felix Zielcke
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