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[83.76.90.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m20sm19168125wie.6.2012.06.04.02.57.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FCC8675.5050905@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:57:09 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: grub-efi with latest mac mini References: <654DF80AD31A344E93DBCC6280BD6DEF4ADA4F37@NL0230MBX08N1.DIR.slb.com> In-Reply-To: <654DF80AD31A344E93DBCC6280BD6DEF4ADA4F37@NL0230MBX08N1.DIR.slb.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig57897ECD9EC70C6017823964" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:57:29 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig57897ECD9EC70C6017823964 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04.06.2012 10:12, John Frankish wrote: > I've been trying to get grub-efi to work with the latest mac mini. >=20 > To avoid having no way to boot if I cannot get grub-efi to work, I'm bo= oting via rEFIt at the moment. >=20 > Grub-1.99 is installed to /mnt/sda2/efi/grub, and I can boot grub-efi v= ia the rEFIt menu, but: 1.99 is old, especially for EFI. You need to use something newer. >=20 > 1. I do not get any screen display until the linux os (3.0.21) starts t= o boot >=20 Most likely GRUB 1.99 has autochosen a resolution which is too high for your screen or you've beet hit by some other EFI bug in 1.99 which, again, is too old. > 2. Once booted, neither the usb mouse nor usb keyboard work >=20 What happens after Linux is loaded is outside GRUB control. >=20 > Grub-efi was installed with: >=20 > $ x86_64-grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi -d /usr/local/lib/x86_64-grub/x86_6= 4-efi -o grub.efi -p "" part_gpt part_msdos hfsplus fat ext2 normal chain= boot configfile linux multiboot pci lspci setpci usb_keyboard efi_gop oh= ci uhci usb video >=20 Use grub-install, not the outdated manual instructions. > I've use the following for the display in grub.cfg: >=20 > insmod font > loadfont /efi/grub/unicode.pf2 > insmod gfxterm > set gfxmode=3Dauto > set gfxpayload=3Dkeep > terminal_output gfxterm >=20 > ..and since I've used the usb module in grub-mkimage, I would have thou= ght the usb keyboard/mouse would work >=20 USB bus modules without the relevant USB device modules will only takeover the USB but not make anything useful but it will prevent firmware keyboard driver to work. Either add usb_keyboard and usbms or remove USB modules altogether. Better still, use grub-install. > Any pointers would be much appreciated. >=20 > Regards > John >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > . >=20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig57897ECD9EC70C6017823964 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk/Mhn0ACgkQNak7dOguQgnqWwEAvvQsnayvmSassAibceV1UmIT k2FHIn4ElizZPaya1ekA/iy8tvGVhk5rPkfXyFcZk5jNk9cf0kurznEFwaCBukVV =FLHg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig57897ECD9EC70C6017823964--