On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Arvid Warnecke wrote:
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.
Yeah. Lasted over two years, which I understand is a good run. (And it still
/sorta/ works, but I don't want to risk having an unbootable computer as the
end of the semester nears.)
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.
The disks themselves aren't officially supported - but once you've done the
installation, it's the same arch. As far as I can tell, they're the best thing
available for EFI computers.
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!
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Scott Lawrence
Linux jagadai 3.3.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 3 06:46:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
