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MiMe

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black screen when loading chameleon via grub2 multiboot
« on: December 22, 2011, 05:25:20 PM »
Hi,

I try to start Chameleon (v2.1svn r1730) by grub2. Grub2 can load Chameleon
but display turns into light black showing dots similiar to kernel loading. That's
it. Chameleon does not appear. I have to reset laptop.

Grub2 is located on GPT EFI System Partition (ESP) on my Laptop (Thinkpad x121e).

Code: [Select]
mime@mime-ThinkPad-X121e:/boot/efi$ cat EFI/grub/grub.cfg
...
menuentry "Lion" {
        insmod part_gpt
        insmod hfsplus

        search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 70d6-1701
        multiboot (${root})/boot
}
...
mime@mime-ThinkPad-X121e:/boot/efi$ ls -l
insgesamt 265
-rwxrwx---  1 root plugdev 268288 2011-12-22 16:50 boot
drwxrwx--- 10 root plugdev   1024 2011-12-22 16:32 EFI
drwxrwx---  5 root plugdev    512 2011-12-22 16:49 Extra
-rwxrwx---  1 root plugdev     25 2011-10-20 11:40 startup.nsh
drwxrwx---  4 root plugdev    512 2011-12-22 16:49 usr

Any help or hint (missing options?) are welcome.
Please help.

MiMe

JrCs

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Re: black screen when loading chameleon via grub2 multiboot
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2011, 06:25:39 PM »
Hi,

I try to start Chameleon (v2.1svn r1730) by grub2. Grub2 can load Chameleon
but display turns into light black showing dots similiar to kernel loading. That's
it. Chameleon does not appear. I have to reset laptop.

Grub2 is located on GPT EFI System Partition (ESP) on my Laptop (Thinkpad x121e).

Code: [Select]
mime@mime-ThinkPad-X121e:/boot/efi$ cat EFI/grub/grub.cfg
...
menuentry "Lion" {
        insmod part_gpt
        insmod hfsplus

        search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 70d6-1701
        multiboot (${root})/boot
}
...
mime@mime-ThinkPad-X121e:/boot/efi$ ls -l
insgesamt 265
-rwxrwx---  1 root plugdev 268288 2011-12-22 16:50 boot
drwxrwx--- 10 root plugdev   1024 2011-12-22 16:32 EFI
drwxrwx---  5 root plugdev    512 2011-12-22 16:49 Extra
-rwxrwx---  1 root plugdev     25 2011-10-20 11:40 startup.nsh
drwxrwx---  4 root plugdev    512 2011-12-22 16:49 usr

Any help or hint (missing options?) are welcome.
Please help.

MiMe

Work well for me but my grub is located on a GPT HFS partition.

MiMe

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Re: black screen when loading chameleon via grub2 multiboot
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2011, 08:21:01 PM »
Quote
Work well for me but my grub is located on a GPT HFS partition.

It shouldn't depend on the filesystem.

Could you please provide the files of your EFI partition or just only boot-file  - just to compare.

I uploaded my EFI Partition (40 MB) to http://www.filesonic.com/file/4338344095

Thanks!
MiMe