On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 08:37:51AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > Package: grub-efi-ia32 > Version: 1.98+20100705-1 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software
For what it's worth, I'm likely to downgrade this for a while, until a current version gets into testing; the version in testing has some serious problems on all architectures right now that badly need to be fixed. > after installing and using the current grub-efi-ia32, I got a grub menu > once, which filled the whole screen in the native display resolution > (1680x1050), instead of the 640x480 screen I used to get with older grub > versions. Then I booted Linux. > > After a reboot, I don't get any video signal unless I boot a Linux kernel. I > get no video signal in the EFI firmware, in the menu when I hold the cmd (or > left alt) key during boot, in the grub menu, and in OS X. So the computer > is now damaged and unusable until a Linux kernel is loaded. I have no idea > what exactly caused this, but I'm using this Mac for more than a year now, > and used another Mac mini Core Duo a few years before this, and never got > such behaviour. The only thing I did was to install and use grub-efi-ia32 > 1.98+20100705-1. I used grub-efi-ia32 1.98 before. Can anyone on grub-devel comment on this? It seems remarkable that we could be breaking video for future boots, and I wouldn't know where to start looking. (Full configuration details at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588208.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
