On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
