Re: [Dragora-bug] Fwd: feature request : EFI support for dragora 3

[Aditya Pareek]

On Sunday 28 April 2013 10:29 AM, Matias A. Fonzo wrote:
> El Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:01:25 +0530
> Aditya Pareek<address@hidden>  escribió:
> Hello Aditya,
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:        feature request : EFI support for dragora 3
> > Date:   Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:03:02 +0530
> > From:   Aditya Pareek<address@hidden>
> > To:     address@hidden
> >
> >
> >
> > hello everyone , i started using dragora 2.2 a few months back and
> > until now its been the most fulfilling *nix experience i have ever
> > had , i am veteran debian user who is seeking refuge in dragora's
> > community and from what i have experienced until now i think i am
> > gonna stay :)
> Glad to hear that. :-)
>
> > since i have an apple macbookpro which needs EFI to boot an OS , thus
> > its currently a pain to use tools like rEFIt etc to successfully boot
> > dragora independently without setting up GRUB-EFI on a GPT partition
> > or to use a rEFIt CD for booting dragora. kindly note that i am only
> > running dragora on this mac no OS X
> > so its a 100% freesoftware setup.
> > and considering that all new PC hardware also comes with UEFI now
> > makes it all the more important to support it.
> Sure.
>
> > since dragora 3 is under active development right now i thought
> > putting up a request for adding
> > out of the box EFI support wouldn't hurt :)
> > and although i might not be of much help implementing this technically
> > still if there is anything that i might help the devs with for the
> > matter please feel free to involve me in the matter :)
> You can provide more information about what we need to have the EFI
> support in place?.
>
> > Happy Hacking everyone
> > Aditya Pareek (apm)
> Thanks,
> Matias.
hi Matias,
i tried setting up dragora on a GPT layout partitioned disk which i set 
up using "gnu parted", i followed the info in this thread and it worked
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38164/create-partition-aligned-using-parted
then i installed Dragora without a bootloader and with  "/boot" and "/" 
partitions only , i then booted from an EFI enabled Debian wheezy 
liveUSB stick i have to chroot into the dragora install and from the 
chroot i set up GRUB-EFI on the "/boot" partition with "grub-install 
/dev/HDa1" and then i exited the chroot and rebooted from the HD
and it worked .

hope this hack might help you with modifying the installer for EFI 
support :)

regards
Aditya Pareek (apm)