grub.efi fails to load kernel 2.6.25 or 2.6.26

[Pete]

grub-efi_1.96+20080512-1ubuntu2_i386

on my macbook (see below):

 grub.efi from the ubuntu grub-efi package :

 grub-efi_1.96+20080512-1ubuntu2_i386.deb

  is broken.

grub.efi made with all modules and installed manually fails
to load ubuntu kernels

 vmlinuz-2.6.26-5-generic
 vmlinuz-2.6.26-5-generic
 vmlinuz-2.6.25-1-386
 and others.

and has bugs in its command line.

It does manage to chainload macosx. boot.efi

I use grub.efi made by grub-mkimage compiled from the grub2 gnu source, it works.

http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/grub2/?root=grub

Platform:
# dmidecode -t system
# dmidecode 2.9
# SMBIOS entry point at 0x3eebf000
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
 Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
 Product Name: MacBook2,1
 Version: 1.0
 Serial Number: W8717FYXWGL
 UUID: 61F9E18A-38B2-B440-A87E-7457DF18863C
 Wake-up Type: Power Switch
 SKU Number: System SKUNumber
 Family: MacBook

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 32, 20 bytes
System Boot Information
 Status: No errors detected

Handle 0x0106, DMI type 12, 5 bytes
System Configuration Options

Running kernel loaded by grub.efi (svn)

# uname -r
2.6.25-1-386

[Felix Zielcke (fzielcke)]

If a selfcompiled version worked for you then I think the karmic version should still work.
It's much more recent then your bug report.
Could you please confirm?

[Pete (pxw)]

Ubuntu karmic has < grub-efi_1.96+20090523-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb >, which is up
to SVN grub2 rev 2233 - with the recent Apple Intel revs from Bean and
phcoder, which I have been using, so should be ok, but I will try it and
report in relation to this bug, which I had forgotten. The main outstanding
issue is the inability to run 3d acecelerated nvida and ati graphics on
Apple Intel, but that is another story.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> wrote:

> If a selfcompiled version worked for you then I think the karmic version
> should still work.
> It's much more recent then your bug report.
> Could you please confirm?
>
> --
> grub.efi fails to load kernel 2.6.25 or 2.6.26
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259986
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Cros (pxw)

[Felix Zielcke (fzielcke)]

Maybe you need to dump the video bios and load it in grub
See at the end of http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

[Ricky Campbell (cyberdork33)]

I think peter is quite aware of that... There is also a lot of good info here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Pete (pxw)]

Bug fixed in current grub2 code tks.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Closing as fix released, as per your last comment