https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35267
--- Comment #4 from [email protected] 2011-03-23 15:51:36 PDT --- I have the exact same problem, except in this case Fedora 14 with Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64. But same hardware, Macbook Pro 4,1. I have succesfully gotten this hardware to boot Fedora 14/Linux 2.6.35-11+ using rEFIt + Grub 0.97 (with GPT + MBR syncd using rEFIt). This is almost certainly using BIOS emulation. This web site indicates that native EFI boot is possible with this hardware. http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook I have not been able to reproduce these results. There are three anomalies on this web site under "Tested configurations" that I haven't done regression against. a.) Kernel: I did not test with this listed kernel. b.) Video driver: nvidia-260.19.06-0ubuntu1 is not one I'm familiar with how to install on Fedora. So I have been unable to test this. c.) Grub: All models are listed with grub-efi64 *except* this Macbook 4,1 model. Earlier it says to check EFI using: ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi which reports back: | | "firmware-abi" = <"EFI64"> So it seems I should built Grub 1.99 as x86_64, which I did. I have not tried recompiling for i686. d.) Extra steps says "Model details of "drivers/video/efifb.c" were wrong and needed patching/recompiling" This may mean Grub 1.99 is not passing the correct video information to the kernel. Otherwise I have tried with and without the BIOS capture steps and it will will not boot. So I think there's either something with 32-bit EFI, or altering efifb.c. If efifb.c needs to be modified for this to work, it needs to be reported to Grub devel me thinks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
