Re: [Mactel-linux-users] long long white screen when booting

[Justin M. <jus...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:03 PM, cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...> wrote:
> EFI is searching for an efi executable. You can use the OS X DVD to
> bless the linux partition to shorten the delay.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5166788&postcount=21
> On Jul 31, 2008, at 8:56 PM, explo wrote:
>
>> hi!
>> I just reinstall my macbook with single boot, I was tired of the refit
>> screen and I never use my mac os part anyway. If I needed a firmware
>> update then i'll boot from an external device however it's possible.
>> But then I got a quite bad surprise, when I boot the laptop now, I
>> have
>> a blank screen that last forever, like at least one minute, before the
>> lilo screen comes... does anybody knows why and if I can do anything
>> about it?
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I think this is more than that; i.g.
out of "X" amout of boot's I will have a moment
of where I will see a black screen with no reaction, then
after a hard shutdown(powerbutton), then upon startup
"GOOOONG", a few seconds later EFI finds itself...
"kind of scary",

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Justin P. Mattock