From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NXMeV-0008VG-0W for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:34:23 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXMeT-0008Ua-HY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:34:21 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXMeL-0008RV-W2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:34:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43824 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXMeL-0008RL-Lh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:34:13 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:47565 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXMeL-0004Pv-5j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:34:13 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NXMeI-0008Mh-GU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:34:10 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NXMeG-0002GN-Vk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:34:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:34:08 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100119223408.GC8599@thorin> References: <131780341001050857t6794b2a5o18be810f5bc30d11@mail.gmail.com> <131780341001050915g6025cca3m60b433d168c8b3bc@mail.gmail.com> <131780341001110917i110752f5s9327165d2f38aa9a@mail.gmail.com> <131780341001190437h6389172cs66cc2cbf4d86ec06@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <131780341001190437h6389172cs66cc2cbf4d86ec06@mail.gmail.com> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: EFI boot problem with MBP 5,4 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:34:22 -0000 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:37:57PM +0000, Daire Byrne wrote: > Is this just a kernel bug that I should report or can grub work around > this? It seems to be a unique incomparability with the EFI firmware in > the latest MBP because grub-efi can boot kernels with this patch on > earlier macbooks (e.g. MBP4,1). Given this note in commit log: > [...] This is somewhat hacky, but it > appears to be the only way to do this that does not break some some > set of existing bootloaders. I think you should report it to them. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi