On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:26:25PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can you be more specific? I thought grub was completely agnostic about > >> Linux > >> parameters. > > > > In the parameter passed to linux kernel, there are fields for video > > adapter information, for example, frame buffer address, line length, > > etc. Normally, we don't have to worry about it, but in the case of > > efi, we must fill it in, as kernel can't detect the information > > properly. > > Hi, > > BTW, it's the real mode part of Linux kernel that takes care of such > job. It gathers video information by querying vbe. But in efi, we skip > the real mode part and jump to protected mode directly, so we must > also provide kernel with similar information that would be setup by > the real mode part.
Ah, I suppose this explains why Linux crashes when we try to load it via grub-linuxbios (I reused the i386-pc loader when doing the port, unaware that this would be an issue). -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
