Hi Jason,
Thank you very much for responding. Here are my comments and questions
1. NO, I have not tried the pre-compiled binaries. I have downloaded the
latest elilo and gnu-efi source code from sourceforge.net and compiled.
2. What does this mean "There was code that went into 3.12 to force text
output mode for ia32 macs" ?
Note that my machine is not a Intel based iMac machine. I am using
normal x86 target machines which is having EFI shell utility support in
BIOS. These x86 machines will be having different VGA cards (e.g. My Intel
Irwindale target machine contains 04:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI
Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)).
I have tried with the following parameters after reading the section of "5.6
Got a ATI card?" in Framebuffer HowTo.pdf document
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/Framebuffer-HOWTO.pdf
append = "video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,font:SUN12x22"
But getting the same error results ..-:( - system.c(line 205):LocateHandle
GopProtocol failed.
3. Is it possible to pass "text mode" as a parameter to elilo ? If yes,
please let me know how can I pass ?
4. I will try with elilo-3.6 and also I will correct the elilo.conf file.
Let you know the results.
*Thanks and Regards
-Naresh Bhat*
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Jason Fleischli <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 14:19 +0530, Naresh Bhat wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am a beginner to elilo. My aim is to test the EFI using elilo. I
> > have downloaded the latest gnu-efi and elilo package from
> > sourceforge.net and compiled on my x86 32 bit desktop machine (Which
> > is having FC10).
> Have you tried the precompiled binaries available for download
> what does FC10 mean?
>
> >
> > I have a Intel Irwindale x86 64 bit machine as target machine. This
> > machine contains the the following EFI firmware
> >
> > EFI version 1.10 [14.62] Build flags: EFI32
> > EFI IA-32 Flash (BIOS) [Thu May 12 10:11:37 2005] - INTEL
> > This image MainEntry is at address 1FF262A5
> >
> > Now to test elilo I have done the following things
> >
> > STEP 1: I have created a EFI partition and copied the elilo.efi,
> > elilo.conf, bzImage and ramdisk images in that partition.
> >
> > STEP 2: Selected EFI shell as a first boot in BIOS and able to map
> > the device logs as below
> >
> > STEP 3: Launch the elilo.efi from EFI shell and getting the following
> > errors as "system.c(line 205):LocateHandle GopProtocol failed."
> This means your EFI failed to provide a device handle to elilo for the
> Graphics Output Protocol. Im not familiar with Irwindale at all but
> I see its an old 1.10 EFI. There was code that went into 3.12 to force
> text output mode for ia32 macs, wonder if that is tripping things up
> on your platform. download and try elilo-3.6 binary(pre-UEFI2.0) while I
> look into that ia32 code section.
>
> >
> > near line 1: Unkown option ?#???U??�?�?t? N??N�
> > config.c(line 898):done parsing config file
> This means elilo cant parse your config file at all due to
> garbage on first line.
> >
> > forcing interactive mode due to config file error(s)
> > ELILO v3.12 for EFI/IA-32
>
>
>
>
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