On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:44 -0600, Jason Fleischli wrote: > 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. and I mean with elilo-3.12 I see your response that 3.6 gets passed the GOP query, ah just looked its not there in 3.6, wondering if the GOP query is invalid on EFI 1.10 It was introduced with the INTEL UEFI patches for 3.8. I'll look at the EFI spec. -- ___________________________________ JASON FLEISCHLI HP - Linux Telco R&D | Support Ft. Collins CO (970)898-0874
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