Re: [Mactel-linux-users] grub-efi configuration

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

>
> Hmm.. Thought grub2 needs to be compiled with efi support or  
> something.
(standard x86_32 build over here)

  If this then is not the case, then(probably) my machine needs to  
have the framebuffer address added to efifb.c

Thanks for the info, Ill have a look, and see.(BTW:threads proably all  
crapped out cause I don't know how to send from a phone);


Justin P. Mattock



On May 13, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Tino Keitel <tin...@ti... 
 > wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:08:09 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>
> [...]
>>
>> Cool.. was looking into using efifb on
>> the iMac9,1 but had no luck. Either
>> my grub2 needed to be built with
>> efi support and/or I needed to add the device
>> address to efifb.c
>>
>> What/where are the instructions?
>
> Instructions for what? I just boot an unpatched kernel which uses
> kernel mode setting for intel graphics.  However, I needed to include
> this to my grub.cfg:
>
> search --set -f /boot/vbios.bin
> insmod loadbios
> loadbios /boot/vbios.bin /boot/int10.bin
>
> Regards,
> Tino
>
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