Talk:EFI Native on Mac

I want to point out that there is a lot of miss information on the internet about what version of EFI firmware apple is using. Please look at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237 which lists a table of efi firmware based off of which version of hardware the firmware is running on. Notice that some are now using UEFI2.0 and greater.

Also using grub-install on a native EFI mac (but i believe this extends to any EFI system) did not create the efi binary file required for boot. Instead I had to use the programs that make up grub-install, specifically grub-mkimage and specify several options. I used http://wiki.osdev.org/GRUB#Build_Grub_EFI_binary_.28bootx64.efi.29 as a reference. I am now working on what exactly is required, but as I said, this is good as a reference because from it i was able to make an efi binary file and boot from it. Because I did not finish my grub config (and that i'm still new to grub) i was dumped into a minimal shell with the grub command prompt 'grub>'