I have been testing pure EFI booting with precise on a MacBook Pro (4,1 or 3,1) using grub-efi-amd64. When I have quiet and splash removed from the boot options I am seeing the same error message: "fb: conflicting fb hw usage nouveaufb vs EFI VGA - removing generic driver"
background info: To get started I booted from precise Live CD in BIOS emulation mode. (note, this works great!) I bootstrapped the install of precise using rsync and a chroot so I could get precise onto the hard disk and then replace grub-pc with grub-efi-amd64 while in the chroot. The only way I can boot precise successfully is by running these steps 1. setting the "text" option for GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in the file /etc/default/grub, and then running update-grub2 when booted from the precise Live CD again. (chroot) 2. creating a file named "blacklist-nouveau.conf" in /etc/modprobe.d (file contents "blacklist nouveau" 3. running update-initramfs If I remove the nouveau blacklist and remove text from grub2, I'm back to the error message above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/911689 Title: [precise] [oneiric-alpha1] bootup hangs after ~ 4 secs due to nouveaufb - EFI VGA conflict To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/911689/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
