From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: EFI boot problem with MBP 5,4
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:40:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5634F4.3000209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100119223408.GC8599@thorin>
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Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:37:57PM +0000, Daire Byrne wrote:
>
>> Is this just a kernel bug that I should report or can grub work around
>> this? It seems to be a unique incomparability with the EFI firmware in
>> the latest MBP because grub-efi can boot kernels with this patch on
>> earlier macbooks (e.g. MBP4,1).
>>
>
> Given this note in commit log:
>
>
>> [...] This is somewhat hacky, but it
>> appears to be the only way to do this that does not break some some
>> set of existing bootloaders.
>>
>
> I think you should report it to them.
>
>
I would be ok with adjusting bootloader but I want a clean doc on it.
This commit vaguely mentions some fields. But I haven't looked into new
boot protocol docs
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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2010-01-05 17:15 ` EFI boot problem with MBP 5,4 Daire Byrne
2010-01-07 21:21 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-11 17:17 ` Daire Byrne
2010-01-19 12:37 ` Daire Byrne
2010-01-19 22:34 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-19 22:40 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
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