How to bless a partition using a custom EFI-boot file with non-conforming directory structures and/or file names?
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Is there a guide on how to bless a partition for booting, one that doesn't have the default
/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
structure?
For example, I installed GRUB on the default EFI System Partition (/dev/disk0s1in OS X, /dev/sda1 in Linux) and I have the file /EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi
that I want to use instead of /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
.
Normally, following the standard structure, I would copy grubx64.efi to /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
and also touch /mach_kernel
in the partition I want to make bootable, then I'd run the following to bless the partition:
# bless --folder= --file=/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi --setBoot
# bless --mount= --file=/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi --setBoot
To install GRUB, I followed the instructions in the Arch Linux Beginners' guide, which leaves me with (something like) /EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi
file, where word arch_grub
is arbitrarily chosen. Then running the following commands succeeds with no errors:
# bless --folder= --file=/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi --setBoot
# bless --mount= --file=/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi --setBoot
But the partition doesn't show up in the Apple boot menu, and sudo bless --verbose --info
shows:
┌─[02:31:54/trusktrs-MacBook-Pro/trusktr//tmp]
└─╼ sudo bless --verbose --info /tmp/boot/
Mount point for /tmp/boot/ is /private/tmp/boot
GPT detected
Booter partition required at index 2
System partition found
Preferred system partition found: disk0s1
Returning booter information dictionary:
{type = mutable dict, count = 3,
entries =>
0 : {contents = "System Partitions"} = (
disk0s1
)
1 : {contents = "Data Partitions"} = (
disk0s1
)
2 : {contents = "Auxiliary Partitions"} = (
)
}
I made sure to touch /mach_kernel
then unblessed and re-blessed the partition using the same commands but no luck.
I bet I'm missing something(s) simple and that it's not difficult to do what I want, but I'm not exactly sure what I need to do.
Any tips/ideas/suggestions?
Asked by trusktr
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Jul 6, 2014, 07:48 AM
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