Re: macbook EFI experiences

[Isaac Dupree <id@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>]

Bean wrote:
> Use -l option in patch to ignore space. If it still not work, you can
> make the changes manually, it's quite simple:

/naive me thanks you for mentioning -l

> Ok, I can basically make everything else work, even chainloading OS X,
> but it just don't boot Linux. Kernel and initrd loads properly, but it
> hangs when boot. I start to wonder if this is the kernel's fault. I
> apply the patches from mactel-linux.org, not working either. And elilo
> also fails to load linux.

same here, initrd loading looks to be working properly now with your 
patch, and Linux seems to get equally stuck even when I boot a kernel 
that doesn't need/have an initrd (despite all with CONFIG_EFI=y, and 
other _EFI_ things on too; in particular, it wasn't on the network when 
I had ethernet cable plugged in, and it normally would be, so that's my 
evidence that it definitely didn't boot). (though I didn't try 
chainloading OSX).  So it seems your patches improve matters; but we're 
not in paradise yet :-), and may not be for a while, so the patches 
should probably go into grub and the symptoms documented?

-Isaac