Re: [elilo-discuss] Booting GNU/Linux on a MacBook with EFI, with no BIOS emulation

[Sven A. <an...@an...>]

Peter Weber schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> maybe you can help me. I own an Apple-MacBook (Late 2007) on which I
> installed Gentoo-Linux with Vanilla-Kernel-2.6 and ELILO-3.8 on the last
> few weeks ;-)
> My problem is, that I only got a grey screen when I try to boot it with
> the builtin-chooser of the MacBook, or this error-message while booting
> with rEFIt:
> 
> 	ELILO Boot:
> 	system.c (line 208): Locate.Handle GopProtocol failed
> 
> 
> Here are the most important config files:
> 
> 	http://www.hottemptation.org/System/elilo.efi
> 	http://www.hottemptation.org/System/elilo.conf
> 	http://www.hottemptation.org/System/config (kernel-config)
> 	http://www.hottemptation.org/System/kernel-2.6 (bzImage)
> 	http://www.hottemptation.org/System/fstab (MacOS on partition 6)
> 
> I can't imagine where the mistake is, and if I am honest I can't even
> explain the error-message. As far as I know apple is using efi-1.x with
> UGA and not with GOP? I tried compiling EFI-Framebuffersupport (GOP) in
> and leaving the append-line blank, no difference.

I'm stuck too. I think the problem is the missing EFI-1.x console support
in Linux. I'm not sure, if the EFI GOP support should work (in theory).
I'm trying it via rEFIt...

Some time ago I asked about the differences between the EFI graphics
alternatives on this list. Maybe a look into the archive will give you
some answers...

I'm really interested in any progress.

Regards
 Sven

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