On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 23:50, Arvid Warnecke <arvid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:54:28PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote: >> >What I have been wondering about now is, if it will be possible to >> >install Arch without rEFIt and the Mac OS X at all? I read a lot in the >> >wiki pages, but all I found was that if I install Arch only with EFI >> >support I will have to install GRUB2. And on the page about GRUB2 I >> >read, that I will have to bless GRUB2 from OS X... >> > >> >If that is necessary I might keep rEFIt and OS X as it is and only >> >replace the Mint installation with Arch. >> > >> It's my understanding that with linux 3.3, it's possible to get EFI >> to boot straight to linux. I don't know the specifics - I mean to >> give it a stab early this weekend. If I still have a working >> computer afterwords, I'll let you know what happens (provided nobody >> else interjects with something more useful). >> > Thanks, looking forward to it. > > Best regards, > Arvid Just FYI https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=136833 http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/efistub.html https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/16/194 rEFInd Boot Manager - better than rEFIt - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57632 . Related info at http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/linux.html . Experimental "bless" utility for linux - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54847 (needs more testing) Regards. Keshav
