Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

[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 <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Stefan Bienert
> <address@hidden> 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?
>
> Hi,
>
> You can use search command to locate the root device. Something like  
> this:
>
> search --set /vmlinuz
> linux /vmlinuz ...
> initrd /initrd.img
>
> > - 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.
>
> If you use my repo, you can enable graphic mode for EFI, it even
> allows you to set a background image. Add these lines in grub.cfg:
>
> set gfxmode="0x0"
> loadfont /unifont.pf2
> terminal_output.gfxterm
> background_image /splash.png
>
> You need to include these modules when generating grub.efi: video
> efi_fb gfxterm font png jpeg
>
> unifont.pf2 is the font file, you can generate it using grub-mkfont,
> or just download it here:
>
> http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/unifont.pf2
>
> --
> Bean
>
> gitgrub home: http://github.com/grub/grub/
> my fork page: http://github.com/bean123/grub/
>
>
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