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

[Matias A. Fonzo]

El Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:55:44 +0530
Aditya Pareek <address@hidden> escribió:
> 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 :)
> 

:-)

Fortunately, util-linux (the last release) is including (experimental)
support for GPT in fdisk. Gparted is also good.