Saturday, June 28, 2014

Building GRUB for iMac Netboot EFI

GRUB2 Built on Ubuntu 14.04 to use in iMac Netboot via EFI

Steps:


  1. download grub
  2. install packages to build
  3. create configure script
  4. configure for efi 64bit
  5. patch grub to automatically configure network on iMac efi
  6. make grub
  7. create bootstrap grub.cfg to load the real configuration from the network
  8. build efi netboot grub image
  9. create full grub.cfg to be pulled from server by grub
  10. install grub image, grub.cfg on TFTP server

See the attached files for more details.


Script to document the steps
git-diff output for patches to GRUB


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