grub2 EFI boot loader

Using ubuntu 810 intrepid i386. MacBook2,1

grubefi was built from source under home diretory, not installed under /usr  -

(other configuration options for grub2-pc pcbios and grub2-ieee1275 openfirmwre)


log -
 
pxw@wdc:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential bison subversion
pxw@wdc:~$ mkdir src
pxw@wdc:~$ cd src
Note - leave off the -r 1913 if you want the latest.
pxw@wdc:~/src$ svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2 -r 1913

pxw@wdc:~/src$ pxw@wdc:~/src$ cd grub2/
pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2$ mkdir build && cd build
pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ ../configure --with-platform=efi
pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ make
pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ ls grub-*
grub-editenv  grub-mkconfig      grub-mkdevicemap  grub-mkimage
grub-install  grub-mkconfig_lib  grub-mkelfimage   grub-probe

pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ ./grub-mkimage -h
Usage: grub-mkimage -o FILE [OPTION]... [MODULES]

Make a bootable image of GRUB.

-d, --directory=DIR     use images and modules under DIR [default=/usr/local/lib/grub/i386-efi]
-p, --prefix=DIR        set grub_prefix directory [default=/boot/grub]
-o, --output=FILE       output a generated image to FILE
-h, --help              display this message and exit
-V, --version           print version information and exit
-v, --verbose           print verbose messages


pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ MODULES="apple appleldr boot cat chain configfile cpio date ext2 echo fat gpt help hexdump hfs hfsplus iso9660 linux ls normal pc reboot reiserfs scsi search sleep xfs"

pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ ./grub-mkimage -d . -o grub.efi $MODULES

pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ ls -l grub.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 pxw pxw 235008 2008-11-19 21:36 grub.efi
pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ nano grub.cfg
Note - create your own grub.cfg
pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ mkdir grubefi
pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ cp grub.efi grub.cfg *.mod grubefi/

(Also added grubefi/doc/*for these notes and labels grub*.bmp)

pxw@wdc:~/src/grub2/build$ tar -czvf grubefi.tar.gz grubefi/