On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 22:24, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Keshav P R <the.ridikulus.rat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:10, Carsten Mattner >> <carstenmattner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I could swear that some time back some version of archboot media >>> gave me the choice to select grub2-efi-32-bit. >>> >>> Was this dropped? >>> >> >> Yes it was removed wrt booting the iso from 32-bit EFI. But the setup > > Do I have to chroot to the installed partition and install it > from extras? > No. You just have to be connected to net while installing because Archboot will pull the package from the repos and install it for you automatically. > Why not keep it on the medium? > It is not present in the iso because very few systems have 32-bit EFI. Thats also the reason why 32-bit EFI booting support was removed from the iso, so reduce space. >> script still supports installing grub2-efi-i386 if you can download >> the package. > > What is the support, if it's removed? I don't understand that. > The installer script (/arch/setup) supports grub2-efi-i386 installation. But the iso itself will not boot in EFI mode in 32-bit EFI, and the package is not present in the iso (so you need to be connected to net) >>> I've been trying to install arch only (single boot) on a EFI-32 mac. >>> Due to not being able to convinve (bless) rEFIt without having OS X >>> installed to not come up with a delay of >= 20seconds, I wanted to >>> use EFI. >>> >> >> Can you try https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54847 ? > > I can use Apple's bless command, but will try that if Apple's doesn't > work. Don't want to risk bricking the firmware. efibootmgr (and efivars module) may brick the firmware, but i don't think bless or mactel-boot will corrupt it since they modify only at a filesystem level. Regards. Keshav
