Re: UEFI Boot with Grub-Experimental

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:54:36AM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> After having no luck using the grub-efi-amd64 package in ubuntu, or the 
> grub trunk, I've started trying to compile my own grub and getting it to 
> boot on a new Intel motherboard which supports EFI.  I've not been able 
> to get any output yet from the acutal linux kernel; usually the system 
> will simply hang after the boot menu option is selected, or the 'boot' 
> command is issued from the grub command line.
>
> Currently the farthest I've gotten is using the grub command line and  
> typing in the following commands:
>
> insmod efi_gop # no impact on result
> insmod ext2
> insmod part_gpt
>
> set root=(hd0,gpt3)
> fakeroot # optional, no impact on result

I guess that should be 'fakebios'.

> error: no suitable mode found

After 'insmod efi_gop', could you try 'insmod gfxterm' and then
'terminal_output gfxterm', and see what happens?  Before the
terminal_output command, you can also use 'set gfxmode=MODE' (e.g. 'set
gfxmode=1024x768') to change its mode selection.  gfxterm can help
matters here, as that way you have a working video mode that the kernel
can be told to inherit, rather than having to probe its own.

Unfortunately right now it's hard to get debugging information on EFI
video modes.  Since you're building your own GRUB anyway, though, you
could try this patch against trunk:

  http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/grub-efivideoinfo.patch

That will give you an 'efi_video_info' command, which should dump out
the available GOP modes, and might be useful to get a slightly better
idea of what's going on.

> booting however
> _
>
> And then nothing else happens.

It's possible that the kernel may have booted successfully, but that you
simply don't have a working console.  It would be useful to try pinging
the machine to test that.

> I've also tried newreloc, but I don't think this has anything to do with 
> relocations.

Agreed.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden