From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OsLbz-00066A-6Y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:14:47 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52741 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsLbv-00065u-SK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:14:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsLbu-0005KV-CR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:14:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:33564) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsLbu-0005KP-3I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:14:42 -0400 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so2167969ewy.0 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=ImpsLIbP1q3gpxlfX93x03sfJ2yw2qfGyo3t4MYR/ns=; b=PhvkzUxAbBwpi3B8DkzYtbFEV20hfhVZtN4RtaX5zKHA75UQuVQJcyU0Cef9p/PjEu qP8z6Rb87JDq3edAHywhI946rnjNat4UffVR11aGrj0m/c0KKBocgZ4Rcy1fZVJ3vzxm ioki/B/zj63IkSYH/c4jmbYAVJHm/6o8cjE5o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=YKUhbB4O5PxVKA8mHLUTyiLsyjAapGTOg9gdaIhRyuBuNhTkjCxoJNb/1ERfTNkAV9 h9GzEsdl0hCCL2Ppvh5ZJ9r1ntr10qajnmABbg72amFhyUu7EYA9gVBlOAnOL03NJ/uy AGHIfSmzZ5MPEDumhRkPO2B6YLrWhfDW9X6g8= Received: by 10.213.33.82 with SMTP id g18mr980209ebd.77.1283717681117; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (124.117.63.81.cust.bluewin.ch [81.63.117.124]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a48sm6822380eei.6.2010.09.05.13.14.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C83FA26.7060908@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:14:30 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100805 Icedove/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <3939aba7614d81ab0dbb3b1cd5d35caa@mail.hyarros.com> <20100630094029.GN21862@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig05ECC095DD676BFD2FF83E6F" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: UEFI Boot with Grub-Experimental 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: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:14:45 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig05ECC095DD676BFD2FF83E6F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06/30/2010 07:10 PM, stephen@hyarros.com wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the response. > > After trying terminal_output, the computer screen would simply go black= > and the machine would hang (the numlock key would not respond) after th= e > terminal_output gfx command was executed; this would happen regardless > of whether or not set gfxmode was called before. =20 > =20 It's "terminal_output gfxterm", not just "gfx". There may have been bug in the past thast specifying incorrect terminal lead to bad consequences.= Also be sure not to load efi_uga. > I also have just tried the efi_video_info patch; the system reports: > > GOP info: > List of video modes: > 0: 1024 x 768, bitonly, scan line 1024 > Current mode: 0 > > Do i need to pass this information on to the kernel somehow? > > Thanks. > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:40:31 +0100, Colin Watson > wrote: > =20 >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:54:36AM -0700, stephen@hyarros.com wrote: >> =20 >>> After having no luck using the grub-efi-amd64 package in ubuntu, or t= he >>> grub trunk, I've started trying to compile my own grub and getting it= to >>> boot on a new Intel motherboard which supports EFI. I've not been ab= le >>> to get any output yet from the acutal linux kernel; usually the syste= m >>> will simply hang after the boot menu option is selected, or the 'boot= ' >>> command is issued from the grub command line. >>> >>> Currently the farthest I've gotten is using the grub command line and= >>> typing in the following commands: >>> >>> insmod efi_gop # no impact on result >>> insmod ext2 >>> insmod part_gpt >>> >>> set root=3D(hd0,gpt3) >>> fakeroot # optional, no impact on result >>> =20 >> I guess that should be 'fakebios'. >> >> =20 >>> error: no suitable mode found >>> =20 >> After 'insmod efi_gop', could you try 'insmod gfxterm' and then >> 'terminal_output gfxterm', and see what happens? Before the >> terminal_output command, you can also use 'set gfxmode=3DMODE' (e.g. '= set >> gfxmode=3D1024x768') to change its mode selection. gfxterm can help >> matters here, as that way you have a working video mode that the kerne= l >> can be told to inherit, rather than having to probe its own. >> >> Unfortunately right now it's hard to get debugging information on EFI >> video modes. Since you're building your own GRUB anyway, though, you >> could try this patch against trunk: >> >> http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/grub-efivideoinfo.patch >> >> That will give you an 'efi_video_info' command, which should dump out >> the available GOP modes, and might be useful to get a slightly better >> idea of what's going on. >> >> =20 >>> booting however >>> _ >>> >>> And then nothing else happens. >>> =20 >> It's possible that the kernel may have booted successfully, but that y= ou >> simply don't have a working console. It would be useful to try pingin= g >> the machine to test that. >> >> =20 >>> I've also tried newreloc, but I don't think this has anything to do w= ith >>> relocations. >>> =20 >> Agreed. >> =20 > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig05ECC095DD676BFD2FF83E6F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAkyD+iYACgkQNak7dOguQgnYtwD/ZUtQ/G2WL3VL5tIAvn3VS45x Mx76e21iyww2s8A+sNcBAJ8HpTwPy4onPCccmtp51B2j6gKeuwfU95syLeucPlI4 =Puj2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig05ECC095DD676BFD2FF83E6F--