Bug#716927: grub-efi-amd64: grub-efi doesn't support HFS+ EFI partitions

[Mike Hommey]

Package: grub-efi-amd64
Version: 2.00-15
Severity: wishlist

It is possible to boot Debian on a Mac with the Apple Firmware if the EFI
partition is HFS+ and follows some rules. See http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2830
for my own setup.

But grub-install from the grub-efi package rejects the EFI partition because
it is not FAT and I have to modify the script each time it is upgraded.


-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/mapper/jigen-root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/jigen-srv /srv ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/jigen-home /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda5 /boot/efi hfsplus rw,relatime,umask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-efi-amd64 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.50
ii  grub-common            2.00-15
ii  grub-efi-amd64-bin     2.00-15
ii  grub2-common           2.00-15
ii  ucf                    3.0027+nmu1

grub-efi-amd64 recommends no packages.

grub-efi-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
  grub2/device_map_regenerated:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet init=/lib/systemd/systemd