Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch

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

Bean wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Isaac Dupree
> <id@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> wrote:
>> Bean wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Perhaps you can also try the binary version at:
>>>
>>> http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/grub2/grub.efi.1
>>>
>>> A friend of mine have tested in in 32-bit EFI firmware, there is no
>>> problem for him.
>> It confuses me!  I could boot it from refit as EFI.  Then it claimed to be
>> GRUB 0.97.  The "help" looked slightly different that what I was familiar
>> with (but I've never used grub1 so I don't know...); and `reboot` worked.  I
>> didn't test more yet.. should I?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> That's the fedora efi loader, have you used the right file ?
> 
> BTW, you need to rename it as grub.efi, refit can't find files with .1 suffix.

oh, oops :-/  Now, actually using that file :-)
-- reboot and lspci work, unlike in my version (I wonder why they're 
different??)
-- appleloader works equally badly as with my compile.
-- I tried passing video=intelfb to linux; it worked under grub2-pc but 
didn't improve anything under efi.

-Isaac