Re: EFI report w/ linux 2.6.26.2

[Bean]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Isaac Dupree
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I tested with both video=vesafb and video=efifb on a self-compiled
> Linux-2.6.26.2 with a config based on Ubuntu's, both with my own compile of
> GRUB SVN head and with Bean's grub2-efi compile that had mysteriously worked
> better for me in some ways.
>
> linux /... video=...fb agp=off root=/dev/sda4 gpt
> initrd /...
> boot
>
> + loading the 50MB initrd worked fine (I have no idea why my self-compiled
> Linux .ko modules are 5x the size of Ubuntu's :-)
> + it booted fine, except the graphics and sound (I could tell because of
> listening to disk noises and pressing the power button on the login screen
> did a clean shutdown as normal for Ubuntu; maybe I should've checked
> ssh-ing)
> - Linux failed at graphics both in console and X: Linux made a funny pattern
> on the screen that didn't change (though it was different the two times I
> tried booting through EFI).
> - No sound when there probably should've been
>
> maybe I'm still doing something wrong, I dunno :-) ... BIOS boot is still
> working great.  Although, I tried putting grub2-bios on a USB Flash drive's
> MBR[is that the right terminology? it is partitioned, not superfloppy], and
> when I tried booting from it on my MacBook, rEFIt told me that booting it
> failed and that it's probably because Apple's support for USB-boot is not
> very good.  So I don't think I got even as far as the point of discovering
> whether grub worked (it had mentioned an odd device.map(IIRC) to me when
> installing).

Hi,

Please take a look at the wiki page and see if you can make graphic
work by following the instructions:

http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

-- 
Bean