Re: EFI Boot on MacPro

[peter cros]

Successfully booting linux 2.6.27 on MacBook2,1 - details.

i386 grub.efi, SVN version 1913.

ubuntu 810, kernel version  2.6.27-7-generic (installed today).
   2244272 2008-10-24 19:29 vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
   8177710 2009-01-08 16:48 initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic

grub.cfg - (sym links, /vmlinuz->  /initrd.img-> )
menuentry "search-vmlinuz root=sda3" {
    search --set  /vmlinuz
 linux  /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3  video=efifb
 initrd  /initrd.img
}

disabled agp modules using blacklist (intel_agp, agpgart)
and xorg.conf change to Driver "fbdev". (Also possible to get to X gui desktop without disabling agp, but with no virtual console display).

Can load and start 64bit kernel and initrd, but initialization hangs after initscript starts, (somwhere round acpi steps?), before mounting root, (ubuntu amd64 package).

configfile extracts - (generic ubuntuconfig)
EFI (same as 2.6.26) 
CONFIG_EFI=y
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y
CONFIG_FB_EFI=y

AGP
CONFIG_AGP=m
CONFIG_AGP_ALI=m
CONFIG_AGP_AMD=m
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=m
CONFIG_AGP_ATI=m
CONFIG_AGP_EFFICEON=m
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=m
CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS=m
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m
 
Attached full /boot/config-2.6.27-7-generic

Will test --with-platfrom=efi --target=x86_64 soon when I have the later version Mac.


peter cros

config-2.6.27-7-generic
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