Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert <address@hidden>:
>>> - 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
>
> So, my grub.cfg now contains:
>
> set gfxmode="0x0"
> search --set --file /boot/unifont.pf2
> loadfont /boot/unifont.pf2
> terminal_output.gfxterm
> search --set --file /boot/splash.jpg
> background_image /boot/splash.jpg
>
> But this does not work. I also tried loading gfxterm in the
> grub2-console. Even with insmod video, insmod efi_fb before.
> If I cast terminal_output.gfxterm to the console, grub2 seems to hang.
>

Guess it might be broken.

Who has actually tested efi graphics, and on what hardware?

Does it clear/reset graphics before it hangs? If not we could perhaps
add some debug prints to find out what it is doing before the hang.

I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later
this/next week (depending on the location where you are reading this).

Thanks

Michal