From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KHgIp-0006SJ-EH for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:42:23 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHgIn-0006Q0-TB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:42:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHgIm-0006NV-9I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:42:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44606 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHgIm-0006NN-3B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:42:20 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:53647) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHgIl-0002EU-Mh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:42:19 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KHgDv-0003VW-KM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:37:20 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KHgHz-0006oZ-Ln for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:41:31 +0200 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:41:31 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080712144131.GE25455@thorin> References: <48623F1B.4090801@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <486617C1.3040705@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <486820D7.2030404@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <486FFD84.5000607@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <487392C9.40208@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:42:22 -0000 On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:31:53AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > -- I tried passing video=intelfb to linux; it worked under grub2-pc but > > didn't improve anything under efi. > > intelfb doesn't work. The only way to see console in efi is to use > video=vesafb or video=efifb. How come? I thought intelfb used the bare hardware. > grub2 will detect these options and setup > frame buffer for you. Can you be more specific? I thought grub was completely agnostic about Linux parameters. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)