[Fedora-livecd-list] Help: How to boot a Live CD by using EFI?

Lee Eric openlinuxsource at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 11:42:40 UTC 2011


Any update?

Eric

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Lee Eric <openlinuxsource at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I checked the Fedora 14 installation CD. There are 2 files efiboot.img
> and efidisk.img in images directory. What are functions are those
> files? It seems EFI boot needs GRUB to boots up the OS. And what's the
> function of EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.conf file? Is there any special entry in
> this file?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Eric
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Brian C. Lane <bcl at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:09:22PM +0000, Marc Herbert wrote:
>>> Le 24/03/2011 14:23, Brian C. Lane a écrit :
>>> > I just pushed a number of
>>> > changes fixing up EFI support and have tested it fairly extensively.
>>>
>>> Sorry I have not been following this... does that imply that most
>>> Intel Macs should just work?
>>
>> I don't know about 'most' but it does work on my 2007 MacBook. Where you
>> run into trouble is if you want to install it and dual boot. When I was
>> doing that I had to use rEFIt on OSX to get it working with Fedora as
>> the 2nd OS.
>>
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