Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert <bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de>: >>>> - The menu is rather small, is it possible to expand the display to >>>> 1280x800? >>>> >>>> - Since I own a Macbook, I want my boot manager nice and shiny. How do I >>>> set the looks? E.g. Background image? Couldn't find helpful info in the >>>> manual-draft. >>> If you use my repo, you can enable graphic mode for EFI, it even >>> allows you to set a background image. Add these lines in grub.cfg: >>> set gfxmode="0x0" >>> loadfont /unifont.pf2 >>> terminal_output.gfxterm >>> background_image /splash.png >> So, my grub.cfg now contains: >> >> set gfxmode="0x0" >> search --set --file /boot/unifont.pf2 >> loadfont /boot/unifont.pf2 >> terminal_output.gfxterm >> search --set --file /boot/splash.jpg >> background_image /boot/splash.jpg >> >> But this does not work. I also tried loading gfxterm in the >> grub2-console. Even with insmod video, insmod efi_fb before. >> If I cast terminal_output.gfxterm to the console, grub2 seems to hang. >> > > Guess it might be broken. > > Who has actually tested efi graphics, and on what hardware? > > Does it clear/reset graphics before it hangs? If not we could perhaps > add some debug prints to find out what it is doing before the hang.
For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. > I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later > this/next week (depending on the location where you are reading this). That would be nice. I use Bean's repository. greetings, Stefan _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel