Rambo6 Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Hello, I want to install grub because i want to install Mac,how can i install GRUB ? (i work with a PC now) Grtz,Rambo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Hello, I want to install grub because i want to install Mac,how can i install GRUB ? (i work with a PC now) Grtz,Rambo Easiest way is to download linux and install it. Grub install automatically. I like opensuse Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-697551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsomnius Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Easiest way is to download linux and install it. Grub install automatically.I like opensuse That does sound like a painless way to go. Will it succeed as well on a multipartition setup as on a multi-drive setup? I'm having no joy with AMD/OSX/separate drives. GRUB seems like the way to go, but setting it up/troubleshooting it looks fairly excruciating. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-697580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo6 Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 Does someone has a TUT on how to install GRUB ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-697650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Does someone has a TUT on how to install GRUB ? If you install Linux, grub will install automatically, unless you tell it not to. If you don't like Linux, you can use FreeBSD or Solaris instead. Install it to MBR. Setting up OS X to work with it is not automatic, but still easy. This is how. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry606752 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-697803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 You ain't kidding, wmarsh, about the overwhelming number of posts. I find that to be true on any subject, not just bootloaders. The signal-to-noise ratio here is extremely (painfully) low. That post you linked is like a golden nugget. I didn't follow it, personally, but it describes almost exactly the way I did it. The big difference is I installed grub onto a USB memory stick instead of onto the hard drive. Linux - I have openSUSE too - won't do that for you. I had to read 'man grub' and experiment for 2 days before I figured it out. I still don't understand why grub uses a disk numbering scheme totally different from Linux. I guess it has something to do with the computer's BIOS, but it's not explained clearly anywhere. The big hurdle I had to jump was figuring out that when you boot from a memory stick, grub makes that stick (hd0) so getting to my second disk for OSX means I have to type in '82' after chainloading boot_v8. Grub is insanely complicated given that the problem it addresses is simple in theory. Then I wanted to change the grub background image to something different than the openSUSE one, and that took another 2 days to figure out. It could definitely be easier, that's for sure. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-697991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo6 Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Thanks, il try FreeBSD,now hope for boot up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-698092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Thanks, il try FreeBSD,now hope for boot up With FreeBSD on install tell it to install grub, not the FreeBSD bootloader, to mbr. I don't know how to make the FreeBSD bootloader boot OS X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-698247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo6 Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 is there a How to for FreeBSD ? or Solaris ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-698256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slip Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 don't understand why grub uses a disk numbering scheme totally different from Linux. I guess it has something to do with the computer's BIOS, but it's not explained clearly anywhere. The numbering starts at zero instead of one. Dosn't skip any numbers for extended partitions etc. So you when you press C and boot from command line. You end up with root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro : so before you've even booted you called to different numbers for the same partition fun EH! initrd /boot/initrd* boot OR if you get stuck on OSX with GRUB. root (hd0,X) makeactive chainloader +1 boot Ya same here I didn't try to install grub only to the MBR and gave up. But is there a way to boot linux from the Darwin boot menu? Then you'd have to use grub or some 3rd party loader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-698426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo6 Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 I am not a computer expert,i dont know that much about computers, i installed Mac OS X Leopard (iAtkos v1.0) when i boot, i get a flashing cursor.... How can i make it boot ? Grub ? Yeah, how to install grub ? i dont want linux on my ! (Maybe is there another way to install Mac os X Leopard for PC ?? ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-698747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 is there a How to for FreeBSD ? or Solaris ? My Tutorial tells you how to install pc_efi on grub with FreeBSD. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry606752 FreeBSD asks you if you want grub or the FreeBSD bootloader during installation. Solaris 10 installs grub automatically. I don't use Solaris anymore, except in VMware, as it does not support my southbridge. don't understand why grub uses a disk numbering scheme totally different from Linux. I guess it has something to do with the computer's BIOS, but it's not explained clearly anywhere.The numbering starts at zero instead of one. Dosn't skip any numbers for extended partitions etc. So you when you press C and boot from command line. You end up with root (hd0,1)kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro : so before you've even booted you called to different numbers for the same partition fun EH!initrd /boot/initrd*boot OR if you get stuck on OSX with GRUB.root (hd0,X)makeactivechainloader +1bootYa same here I didn't try to install grub only to the MBR and gave up. But is there a way to boot linux from the Darwin boot menu? Then you'd have to use grub or some 3rd party loader. Why does grub number the way it does -- because the person who wrote it liked it that way. Its open source so you are free to modify the code if you don't like it. OS X won't boot for me using your syntax. Read the tutorial. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry606752 I am not a computer expert,i dont know that much about computers, i installed Mac OS X Leopard (iAtkos v1.0) when i boot, i get a flashing cursor.... How can i make it boot ? Grub ? Yeah, how to install grub ? i dont want linux on my ! (Maybe is there another way to install Mac os X Leopard for PC ?? ) My experience is grub booting pc_efi fixes the blinking cursor problem. Why are you asking how to install grub if you don't want to install grub? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-699035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo6 Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 I had a Tut,its says ''Go to insanelymac.com and search for ToH Script" i was searching for it,but a friend of my told me to download Grub,install it, and then i will work,but, how do i install grub ! ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-699721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Rambo6, your question has been answered at least twice already. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-699985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo6 Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 So i need to read the pc_efi tut ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97654-how-to-install-grub/#findComment-701017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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