Your message dated Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:54:38 +0100
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has caused the report #588208,
regarding grub-efi-ia32: breaks video of Mac Mini Core 2 Duo
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) grub-de...@gnu.org
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On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 08:37:51AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> Package: grub-efi-ia32
> Version: 1.98+20100705-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
For what it's worth, I'm likely to downgrade this for a while, until a
current version gets into testing; the version in testing has some
serious problems on all architectures right now that badly need to be
fixed.
> after installing and using the current grub-efi-ia32, I got a grub menu
> once, which filled the whole screen in the native display resolution
> (1680x1050), instead of the 640x480 screen I used to get with older grub
> versions. Then I booted Linux.
>
> After a reboot, I don't get any video signal unless I boot a Linux kernel. I
> get no video signal in the EFI firmware, in the menu when I hold the cmd (or
> left alt) key during boot, in the grub menu, and in OS X. So the computer
> is now damaged and unusable until a Linux kernel is loaded. I have no idea
> what exactly caused this, but I'm using this Mac for more than a year now,
> and used another Mac mini Core Duo a few years before this, and never got
> such behaviour. The only thing I did was to install and use grub-efi-ia32
> 1.98+20100705-1. I used grub-efi-ia32 1.98 before.
Can anyone on grub-devel comment on this? It seems remarkable that we
could be breaking video for future boots, and I wouldn't know where to
start looking.
(Full configuration details at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588208.)
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Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]
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