Re: EFI Boot on MacPro

[Ziling Zhao <zilingzhao@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 22:36:27 Bean wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Ziling Zhao <zilingzhao@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't had much success with testing directly on the XServe that I
> > have here, but I was able to get as far as getting grub to show up.
> > However, it stalls after:
> >
> >      [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x2ff4701]
> > Video mode: 180x1050-32@0
> > Video frame buffer: f0000000
> >
> > Just as far as I can get the Mac Pro. I don't exactly have a macbook to
> > test on, so I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong, or the Mac
> > Pro/XServes are just different. Of course, using refit works on the mac
> > pros, but applying the same process to the XServes didn't work.
> >
> > I've attached my .config just in case someone wants to look it over, I
> > believe I have all the EFI stuff in there.
>
> Hi,
>
> The video mode line doesn't seem to be valid, so I guess xserver is
> indeed different.
>
> Fedora also have efi loader, which is basically some hacking with grub
> legacy. Perhaps you can try that and see if it works.

Sorry, that output is actually for the macpro. I don't have the Xserve's 
output.

~Ziling Zhao