On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:36 +0530, Naresh Bhat wrote: > 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" ? forget it, its not your problem, the problem is your platform EFI is not providing elilo the graphics output protocol while elilo is setting up the boot parameters to pass to your kernel. at that line, elilo is simply querying your EFI for the handle, your EFI is returning an error on that query. Since your on IA32 non-mac and efi 1.10 try setting option "legacy-free" an IA32 specific option and get your elilo.conf fixed up, see elilo-source/docs/elilo.txt for documentation on the config file setup and this "legacy-free" option. you might check your EFI console settings too and make sure everything in EFI is setup to go to the PCI or AGP default that you intend to make sure EFI is not set to serial only or something for which no graphics output is supported especially if you have multiple graphics interfaces in your system.
> 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. > -- ___________________________________ JASON FLEISCHLI HP - Linux Telco R&D | Support Ft. Collins CO (970)898-0874 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ elilo-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/elilo-discuss
