> Then you should be able to add EFI display support quite easily during
> the "make menuconfig" step
A new improvement here!
Besite EFI display stuff, now I have also CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA enabled.
This gives me boot output on booting. but not on shuting down.
So, now I have
- graphical menu
- termin
richardvo...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have an idea what might be wrong in my gentoo kernel. I hope I find
>> the time for a little bit of testing, tomorrow.
>
> Did you compile it yourself (emerge
> gentoo-sources/vanilla-sources/hardened-sources then make menuconfig
> then make bzImage) or did you u
> Hi,
>
> The easier way is to use my new menu test demo, download resource file at:
>
> http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/menu.zip
>
> Unzip to the boot partition, you should see many files under /menu/ directory.
>
> Then you just need to add this line at the end of grub.cfg:
>
> source /menu/
> Hi,
>
> The easier way is to use my new menu test demo, download resource file at:
>
> http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/menu.zip
>
> Unzip to the boot partition, you should see many files under /menu/ directory.
>
> Then you just need to add this line at the end of grub.cfg:
>
> source /menu/
Bean wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Stefan Bienert
> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have compiled a binary version and uploaded at ubuntu forum:
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1248647
>> S
Hi again,
> Hi,
>
> I have compiled a binary version and uploaded at ubuntu forum:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1248647
So, I've tried that binary: Now the menu, while it is still text based,
takes the whole screen, which is an improvement.
But I still have no output while boot
Hi Michal,
sorry to contact you dircetly, but did you upload a binary somewhere? I
accidentially deleted to many emails, so I wasn't sure anymore if you
already posted a link...
kind regards,
Stefan
Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/10/9 Stefan Bienert :
>> Hi again,
>>
>&g
Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/10/9 Stefan Bienert :
>> Hi again,
>>
>> thanks for that hint. I will try the new beta-3 next week. More than
>> busy this weekend.
>
> It's built from the Bean's repo so the version number is somewhat misleading.
>
>
Hi again,
thanks for that hint. I will try the new beta-3 next week. More than
busy this weekend.
BTW, what kernel options/ version do I need for gfxterm? Just in case
that's my problem and everybody is searching in the wrong place ;-)
greetings,
Stefan
>
> For me gfxterm works on an iMac wit
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What's your video card, intel or nvidia ?
>>>
>> Nvidia.
>
> Hi,
>
> I found a small bug that could be the cause, please try the latest
> code from menu branch. I also upload the binary file to ubuntu forum
> in case you don't want to compile it yourself.
>
OK, I tried that. (BT
Bean wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Stefan Bienert
> wrote:
>> Peter Cros wrote:
>>> There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and menutest from
>>> Bean here on Ubuntuforms.org apple mac subforum thread
>>>
>>> grub2 EFI
Peter Cros wrote:
> There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and menutest from
> Bean here on Ubuntuforms.org apple mac subforum thread
>
> grub2 EFI boot loader internal/external booting post #1054
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8034856&postcount=1054
>
>
OK, I tr
Hi again,
sorry, my git-foo is not that good, can you help me getting into testing
the demo from you menu branch?
I already cloned a copy of your repo, but I do not know how to get into
a particular branch, there.
greetings,
Stefan
> Hi,
>
> Oh, that could be the double buffer problem, perhap
Hi again!
Do we have any news on the gfxterm problem in Grub2-EFI?
greetings,
Stefan
>>> OUTPUT-Start
>>> Rom image present.
>>> [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x2784a0]
>>> Video mode: 1280x800-32
>>> Frame buffer base: 0x8001
>>> Video line length: 8192
>>> OUTPUT-End
>>>
>>> I ho
>> OUTPUT-Start
>> Rom image present.
>> [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x2784a0]
>> Video mode: 1280x800-32
>> Frame buffer base: 0x8001
>> Video line length: 8192
>> OUTPUT-End
>>
>> I hope this is the requested info. Do provide other stuff, I probably
>> need a detailed instruction.
Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert :
>> Bean wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert
>>> wrote:
>>>> For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared.
>>>>
>>>>> I could perhaps tr
Bean wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert
> wrote:
>> 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
Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert :
>>>> - 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 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 grap
Where do I get it from?
>>> grub-probe -t fs_uuid /
>>> or grub-probe -t fs_uuid -d /dev/sda1
>>>
How do I incorporate this into
grub.cg?
>>> search --set --fs-uuid abc-123...
>> Just for the sake of completion: abc-123.../path/to/kernel?
> No. If you use --fs-uuid instead of --fi
And another "Hi",
update: Using '--file' in the search did the trick! I really start
loving Grub2: Really faster booting, seems to be easy to configure...
2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy...
Now I have several further questions:
- Depending on whet
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Stefan Bienert wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy...
>>
>> Now I have several further questions:
>>
>> - Depending on whether an USB disk is connected, or n
Hi again,
> Hi,
>
> You can use search command to locate the root device. Something like this:
>
> search --set /vmlinuz
> linux /vmlinuz ...
> initrd /initrd.img
Well, this does not work. I get a message about wrong search term or
something similar.
> If you use my repo, you can enable graphi
Hi again,
2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy...
Now I have several further questions:
- Depending on whether an USB disk is connected, or not, the hd numbers
change. Is there a setup to avoid changing the numbers in the entries on
boot?
- The menu is rather small, is it po
> Hi,
>
> The following modules should be enough:
>
> minicmd part_msdos part_gpt fat ext2 hfsplus ntfs reiserfs xfs iso9660
> ls search loopback linux chain reboot halt appleldr help configfile
> hexdump loadbios fixvideo sh
>
Yeah, it works! Thanks' a lot. I built the new grub.efi as you sugg
> Hi,
>
> You can try my repo at at http://github.com/bean123/grub/, I believe
> it has some uncommitted patches for the EFI platform.
>
> You can use the following menuentry:
>
> menuentry "Gentoo Linux 3 NOAGB NOEFI"
> {
> root=(hd1,3)
> fakebios
> linux /boot/kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-
Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 19:34 +0200 schrieb Stefan Bienert:
>> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>> Unfortunately. grub refuses to pass on vga=ask for me.
>
> vga=ask only works with the old linux loader, linux16.
> But that isn't avaible in EFI b
Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/9/22 Stefan Bienert :
>>>>> timeout=10
>>>>>
>>>>> menuentry "Gentoo Linux 3 NOAGB NOEFI" {
>>>>> root=(hd1,3)
>>>>> loadbios /boot/vbios.bin /boot/int10.bin
>&g
>>> timeout=10
>>>
>>> menuentry "Gentoo Linux 3 NOAGB NOEFI" {
>>> root=(hd1,3)
>>> loadbios /boot/vbios.bin /boot/int10.bin
>>> linux /boot/kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-n root=/dev/sda4 video=efifb
>>> agp=off noefi
>>> }
>>>
>>> menuentry "MacOSX" {
>>> root=(hd1,2)
>>> chainloader /us
>>> This is my grub-mkimage line:
>>> grub-mkimage -o grub.efi part_gpt hfsplus fat ext2 normal chain boot
>>> configfile part_apple appleldr
>>>
>>> Next I try to include all modules.
>>>
>>> greetings,
>>>
>>> Stefan
>> OK, now I've included ALL modules BUT kernel in yesterdays SVN version
>> and
> This is my grub-mkimage line:
> grub-mkimage -o grub.efi part_gpt hfsplus fat ext2 normal chain boot
> configfile part_apple appleldr
>
> Next I try to include all modules.
>
> greetings,
>
> Stefan
OK, now I've included ALL modules BUT kernel in yesterdays SVN version
and I'm at the same sta
>> I'm trying to get Grub2 working on a Efi platform (MacBook 5,1).
>> In version 1.96 I get a menu with a working MacOSX entry, but linux
>> won't boot. I just get some output which looks like data for the video
>> card, than the system hangs.
>>
>> With todays SVN version (which does not compile
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 06:38:36PM +0200, Stefan Bienert wrote:
>> Hi Grub2 fans!
>>
>> I'm trying to get Grub2 working on a Efi platform (MacBook 5,1).
>> In version 1.96
>
> Don't use 1.96.
>
After the first problems I used t
Hi Grub2 fans!
I'm trying to get Grub2 working on a Efi platform (MacBook 5,1).
In version 1.96 I get a menu with a working MacOSX entry, but linux
won't boot. I just get some output which looks like data for the video
card, than the system hangs.
With todays SVN version (which does not compile c
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