Testing needed for GRUB EFI support

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 09, 2010, at 12:01 AM, Colin Watson wrote:

>Interestingly, one tester has already reported that a MacBook Pro picks
>the i386-pc boot image when booting from my test CD.  If true, that's
>ideal in some sense - we agreed at UDS that we wanted to keep Intel Macs
>booting in BIOS mode, at least for the time being.

That was me. :)

>> and with recent posts on ubuntuforums it seems like only macs with
>> nvidia have trouble with efi boot.
>
>I thought I heard something else, but it was at second hand.  The
>specific source of the problems I heard was that some drivers expect the
>presence of a video BIOS.

I wonder if the choice of enabled video card makes a difference.  Some MBPs
(mine is an MBP5,3) have dual video cards which you can switch between via the
power management preferences.  They're labeled "Better Battery Life" and
"Higher Performance".  This corresponds to the nVidia GeForce 9400M and 9600M
GT cards.

-Barry
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