On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 04:19:13PM -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... > >>>> > >>>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. > >> > My cd writer is apparently dead (gets to 60-80% and dies), so I'll > be contributing no useful information. Sorry > Too bad. Apple drive? Seems that the drives break really that often. > However, it seems that using an archboot[1] livecd[2] is the way to > go - a simple install should give you grub2 properly set up, and > from there it's just a matter of configuration. > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot > [2] http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/pub/archlinux/iso/archboot/2012.01/ > I stumbled upon the Archboot disks, but I haven't been sure if it would be an option, because I read somewhere that they are not officially supported. > By the way, if you intend to go the dwm/xmonad route, I've created a > version of pommed (the hotkeys handler) with unnecessary > dbus/wmaker/gnome/ambient-light-sensor support torn out, along with > the bugs it had. pommed-light in AUR. The main version of pommed > tends to sit at 2% CPU usage because it's constantly polling the > ambient light sensor, and it can't tolerate dbus not being running. > I will take a look, sounds good. > Good luck. > Thanks!
