From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LLBBd-0007PW-R0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:49:41 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLBBb-0007Oj-1H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:49:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLBBV-0007Mp-Ql for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:49:38 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56599 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLBBV-0007Mj-L1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:49:33 -0500 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]:25800) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLBBU-0003DB-MC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:49:33 -0500 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so11020087wfc.24 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:49:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=i4bEbKUEoskLGNw44A8za2s3hXItQNzb6dBtnK11vF0=; b=o8OwBXHUf0p6oLjzHD6SPicMqUQ5hpg14ZXTT2rkRsXqvcf0WcY4E7knERJSxNsojy pGi1Zt59LM6MgpNaMsoJECGRpxwj1vkxu0AGgYQ6lgsY0qV147VL3N0N5rbHCLmIx/mW GIj5Sjjsk2UgRtYDGi1kSMKQBQzgrfYMpY4Q0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=Kq+PRfVSv2JFkSzKlt61lMzfbINZYwa0KwBOpY/V8Q7/AgbWg14Xb+aAWbZvkjfynj iVMg+985q2sLFB0tUqZ/QoG0KFeFgLPw0tg/8vxSNTCzQ4fAUzNbZwus4p5+4+1yHlbx 0co/QbooDwpOKrjulU5PvkwO34m9xEMGaijnk= Received: by 10.143.163.10 with SMTP id q10mr3624608wfo.324.1231483766485; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:49:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from emperor.donotshake.net ([128.208.60.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm6831195wfi.27.2009.01.08.22.49.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:49:25 -0800 (PST) From: Ziling Zhao To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:49:21 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <90cb5db20901061342x6c517037u26f50ef7e6bfb36c@mail.gmail.com> <90cb5db20901081332x16ef7321va2a68e3f3f37cdbd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901082249.21938.zilingzhao@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Cc: Bean Subject: Re: EFI Boot on MacPro 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: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:49:39 -0000 On Thursday 08 January 2009 22:36:27 Bean wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Ziling Zhao 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