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From: Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:25:19
Message-Id: goboaj$93p$2@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini? by "Robert J. King"
1 On 2009-02-28, Robert J. King <peritus@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > On Friday 27 February 2009 11:32:04 pm Grant Edwards wrote:
3 >> >
4 >> > 1. The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac
5 >> > partition patch. Simple update of portage and then grub
6 >> > fixes this.
7 >>
8 >> Do the livecds now use grub? I thought they used syslinux.
9 >> Maybe I'm thinking of a different livecd.
10
11 > The livecd's boot is fine. I was refering to grub is
12 > installed to the HD by default. Can ignore it anyway as
13 > 2008.0-r1 installs grub-0.97-r4 that has the gpt patch.
14
15 I see. I don't plan on installing to the HD, so it's not
16 something I need to worry about ... except I guess installing
17 to a USB flash drive is logically equivalent, so I probably do
18 have to worry about it. I wonder if Linux and OS-X can share a
19 swap partition...
20
21 --
22 Grant

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