On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Keshav P R <the.ridikulus.rat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) OK, so what do I have to use grub2-efi? Try to enable extras (if I can) and install it and then it will magically show up in the bootloader step? >>>> 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
