From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Pm2z5-0005eZ-Bt for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:40:51 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48514 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pm2z2-0005eM-JM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:40:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pm2z1-00055Y-DN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:40:48 -0500 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:36845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pm2z1-00055F-7f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:40:47 -0500 Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so1789422eyh.0 for ; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:40:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=O6A7YP5afOi0ITwYOeotcvrkMH9cUE7lY9xQHtcXSHQ=; b=fzxW6+mFkdcnw+N2skeENTswdOdN7NyThFzn/JupZpnEdg3wSWHHRSRzby0UxbnClh /TuAIc6/DDSRBwaGZPnh0KSffuajR8e5VSetLmkzHawagDzzoa/rTNaQFo+HCf1e31/1 +oogutP1SsHcDiwTP94mPrOPgBZeXbEhEgPks= 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=IXBaflyvRcfLVdyljHUVR8yE8XuUYeR/L+1Pvd3570dqffHwEEY2n3lrfk+LvrW9ST R5HXyqYz0X4yYAmk6B8P3t6XrwvTHX0uYC8N8sAV2nUmbZHrVzQtnq2+LDJAbqOiFfo+ aZR+1xJfUFGwRjk7aocBxbMIvfgWRZHVg8teA= Received: by 10.213.4.203 with SMTP id 11mr7218748ebs.61.1296992444748; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:40:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (host-142-146-66-217.spbmts.ru [217.66.146.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b52sm2168219eei.7.2011.02.06.03.40.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:40:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D4E889E.9090402@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:40:14 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101226 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <4D4E2A1A.5090700@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D4E2A1A.5090700@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig052C321108576A06CD043991" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 Subject: Re: AMI Aptio EFI booting problems on ASUS G73SW-A1 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, 06 Feb 2011 11:40:49 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig052C321108576A06CD043991 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/06/2011 07:56 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Nate Weibley wrote: > >> Per your suggestion I tried other linux distros with various kernels. >> So far >> none of the EFI enabled distros are working. They do work if booted >> via BIOS >> though, of course. Windows 7 64bit *does * boot appropriately via >> EFI, so >> it's hard to say where the fault is. If Windows is booting though, it >> seems >> more likely something is going wrong in the Linux kernel EFI >> handling, or >> perhaps as you say GRUB is passing incorrect pointers. Either way, >> they all >> exhibit the exact same behavior... the kernel is loaded, and at the >> point >> init should be called, the system stalls with no debug or error messag= e. >> >> I will continue testing as kernel revisions are released, but I'm not >> sure >> how else I can bang away at trying to get EFI to boot without any >> sort of >> error message or debugging info. > > I am not an expert in GRUB or EFI, but what it sounds like to me is > that the initrd for the systems you are using does not have EFI support= =2E > > Personally, I never use initrd but build my own kernels with all > capabilities needed built in (not modules). You can test this by > building your own kernel and ensure EFI_PARTITION is built in during > the configure phase. > > -> File systems > -> Partition Types > -> Advanced partition selection (PARTITION_ADVANCED [=3Dy]) > This answer is 100 % irrelevant. Don't confuse EFI and GPT. > Then if the kernel image is, say, /boot/linux-2.6.37, an entry in > boot.cfg like: > > menuentry "My test kernel" { > set root=3D(hd0,) > linux /boot/linux-2.6.37 root=3D/dev/ ro > } > > would be all that's needed. > > That may not be your final answer, but if it does boot, then GRUB is > doing it's job and the problem is in the distro you are using. > > -- Bruce > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig052C321108576A06CD043991 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/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk1OiKMACgkQNak7dOguQgn1fQEAvGaLbjI7WrjksEPEF/zQDmHH kkyA5af0CEAyLaq4s1sA+QG3nyt4HG0kxv42DsC3CT0LAjFKZY2TAP+7vYjey+P6 =/X+J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig052C321108576A06CD043991--