Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-25 Thread Stefan Bienert
Then you should be able to add EFI display support quite easily during the make menuconfig step A new improvement here! Besite EFI display stuff, now I have also CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA enabled. This gives me boot output on booting. but not on shuting down. So, now I have - graphical menu - terminal

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi again, Hi, I have compiled a binary version and uploaded at ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1248647 So, I've tried that binary: Now the menu, while it is still text based, takes the whole screen, which is an improvement. But I still have no output while booting.

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread Bean
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Hi again, Hi, I have compiled a binary version and uploaded at ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1248647 So, I've tried that binary: Now the menu, while it is still text based, takes

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread Stefan Bienert
Bean wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Hi again, Hi, I have compiled a binary version and uploaded at ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1248647 So, I've tried that binary: Now the menu, while it is still text

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread Bean
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Bean wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Hi again, Hi, I have compiled a binary version and uploaded at ubuntu forum:

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi, The easier way is to use my new menu test demo, download resource file at: http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/menu.zip Unzip to the boot partition, you should see many files under /menu/ directory. Then you just need to add this line at the end of grub.cfg: source

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi, The easier way is to use my new menu test demo, download resource file at: http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/menu.zip Unzip to the boot partition, you should see many files under /menu/ directory. Then you just need to add this line at the end of grub.cfg: source

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
I have an idea what might be wrong in my gentoo kernel. I hope I find the time for a little bit of testing, tomorrow. Did you compile it yourself (emerge gentoo-sources/vanilla-sources/hardened-sources then make menuconfig then make bzImage) or did you use genkernel? greetings, Stefan

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread Stefan Bienert
richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: I have an idea what might be wrong in my gentoo kernel. I hope I find the time for a little bit of testing, tomorrow. Did you compile it yourself (emerge gentoo-sources/vanilla-sources/hardened-sources then make menuconfig then make bzImage) or did you use

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-24 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: I have an idea what might be wrong in my gentoo kernel. I hope I find the time for a little bit of testing, tomorrow. Did you compile it yourself (emerge

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-19 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi Michal, sorry to contact you dircetly, but did you upload a binary somewhere? I accidentially deleted to many emails, so I wasn't sure anymore if you already posted a link... kind regards, Stefan Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/10/9 Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de: Hi again,

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-19 Thread Bean
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Hi Michal, sorry to contact you dircetly, but did you upload a binary somewhere? I accidentially deleted to many emails, so I wasn't sure anymore if you already posted a link... Hi, I have compiled a binary

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/4 Bean bean12...@gmail.com: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Bean wrote: On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Peter Cros wrote: There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-09 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi again, thanks for that hint. I will try the new beta-3 next week. More than busy this weekend. BTW, what kernel options/ version do I need for gfxterm? Just in case that's my problem and everybody is searching in the wrong place ;-) greetings, Stefan For me gfxterm works on an iMac with

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/9 Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de: Hi again, thanks for that hint. I will try the new beta-3 next week. More than busy this weekend. It's built from the Bean's repo so the version number is somewhat misleading. I can upload the build somewhere so you can try if it works for

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-09 Thread Stefan Bienert
Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/10/9 Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de: Hi again, thanks for that hint. I will try the new beta-3 next week. More than busy this weekend. It's built from the Bean's repo so the version number is somewhat misleading. I can upload the build somewhere so

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-04 Thread Stefan Bienert
Peter Cros wrote: There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and menutest from Bean here on Ubuntuforms.org apple mac subforum thread grub2 EFI boot loader internal/external booting post #1054 http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8034856postcount=1054 OK, I tried

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-04 Thread Bean
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Peter Cros wrote: There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and menutest  from Bean here on Ubuntuforms.org apple mac subforum thread grub2 EFI boot loader internal/external booting post #1054

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-04 Thread Stefan Bienert
Bean wrote: On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Peter Cros wrote: There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and menutest from Bean here on Ubuntuforms.org apple mac subforum thread grub2 EFI boot loader internal/external booting

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-04 Thread Bean
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Bean wrote: On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Peter Cros wrote: There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and menutest  from Bean here on

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-03 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi again! Do we have any news on the gfxterm problem in Grub2-EFI? greetings, Stefan OUTPUT-Start Rom image present. [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x2784a0] Video mode: 1280x800-32 Frame buffer base: 0x8001 Video line length: 8192 OUTPUT-End I hope this is the requested

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-03 Thread Bean
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Hi again! Do we have any news on the gfxterm problem in Grub2-EFI? greetings, Stefan OUTPUT-Start Rom image present.  [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x2784a0]  Video mode: 1280x800-32  Frame buffer

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-03 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi again, sorry, my git-foo is not that good, can you help me getting into testing the demo from you menu branch? I already cloned a copy of your repo, but I do not know how to get into a particular branch, there. greetings, Stefan Hi, Oh, that could be the double buffer problem, perhaps

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-10-03 Thread Peter Cros
There is a grub.efi binary with the double buffering fix and menutest from Bean here on Ubuntuforms.org apple mac subforum thread grub2 EFI boot loader internal/external booting post #1054 http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8034856postcount=1054 On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Stefan

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 26.09.2009, 22:48 +0200 schrieb Stefan Bienert: And another Hi, update: Using '--file' in the search did the trick! I really start loving Grub2: Really faster booting, seems to be easy to configure... 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy... Now I

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
Where do I get it from? grub-probe -t fs_uuid / or grub-probe -t fs_uuid -d /dev/sda1 How do I incorporate this into grub.cg? search --set --fs-uuid abc-123... Just for the sake of completion: abc-123.../path/to/kernel? No. If you use --fs-uuid instead of --file then you use the UUID.

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 13:11 +0200 schrieb Stefan Bienert: Where do I get it from? grub-probe -t fs_uuid / or grub-probe -t fs_uuid -d /dev/sda1 How do I incorporate this into grub.cg? search --set --fs-uuid abc-123... Just for the sake of completion:

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de: - The menu is rather small, is it possible to expand the display to 1280x800? - Since I own a Macbook, I want my boot manager nice and shiny. How do I set the looks? E.g. Background image? Couldn't find helpful info in the manual-draft.

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de: - The menu is rather small, is it possible to expand the display to 1280x800? - Since I own a Macbook, I want my boot manager nice and shiny. How do I set the looks? E.g. Background image? Couldn't find helpful info

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Bean
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later this/next week (depending on the location where you are reading this). That would

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
Bean wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later this/next week (depending on the location where you are reading this).

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de: Bean wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later this/next week

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de: Bean wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Bean
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Bean wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
OUTPUT-Start Rom image present. [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x2784a0] Video mode: 1280x800-32 Frame buffer base: 0x8001 Video line length: 8192 OUTPUT-End I hope this is the requested info. Do provide other stuff, I probably need a detailed instruction. Hi, This

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Bean
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Stefan Bienert bien...@zbh.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Hi again, 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy... Now I have several further questions: - Depending on whether an USB disk is connected, or not, the hd numbers change. Is there a setup to

Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi again, 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy... Now I have several further questions: - Depending on whether an USB disk is connected, or not, the hd numbers change. Is there a setup to avoid changing the numbers in the entries on boot? - The menu is rather small, is it

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Stefan Bienert wrote: Hi again, 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy... Now I have several further questions: - Depending on whether an USB disk is connected, or not, the hd numbers change. Is there a setup to avoid changing the numbers in the entries on boot? Use

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, I think we need better hinting for efi disks. Since efi supports finding a disk based on its pci information and port connection, why not pass that information as a hint to reduce the amount of time required or to eliminate it completely? --S On Sep 26, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Bean

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Stefan Bienert
Hi again, Hi, You can use search command to locate the root device. Something like this: search --set /vmlinuz linux /vmlinuz ... initrd /initrd.img Well, this does not work. I get a message about wrong search term or something similar. If you use my repo, you can enable graphic mode

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Stefan Bienert
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Stefan Bienert wrote: Hi again, 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy... Now I have several further questions: - Depending on whether an USB disk is connected, or not, the hd numbers change. Is there a setup to avoid changing the

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 26.09.2009, 21:54 +0200 schrieb Stefan Bienert: Hi again, Hi, You can use search command to locate the root device. Something like this: search --set /vmlinuz linux /vmlinuz ... initrd /initrd.img Well, this does not work. I get a message about wrong search

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 26.09.2009, 21:55 +0200 schrieb Stefan Bienert: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Stefan Bienert wrote: Hi again, 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy... Now I have several further questions: - Depending on whether an USB disk is connected,

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-26 Thread Stefan Bienert
And another Hi, update: Using '--file' in the search did the trick! I really start loving Grub2: Really faster booting, seems to be easy to configure... 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy... Now I have several further questions: - Depending on whether an USB disk is