Am 12.05.2014 11:46, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >> Is this an EFI, or a NVidia problem? > > Both. > > EFI does not provide a VGA text mode, only BIOS does. So booting in EFI > mode makes VGA text mode impossible to use. > > Then there's NVidia, who do not officially support booting in anything > else than VGA text mode. It seems to work fine "unofficially" though. > I'm using the EFI console framebuffer driver. The NVidia blob complains > about it, but it seems to work with no ill effects so far. > > So you can include both the EFI design group as well as NVidia in the > "bunch of idiots" I mentioned previously :-)
OK, I consider doing that ;-) Could you maybe add how you "use the EFI console framebuffer driver" here, just as a reference for others? You know, we all google around like hell ... especially with this "intuitive" UEFI-stuff ;-) Best regards, Stefan
