Hello
is it safe to replace grub2 with grub2-efi on my EFI (not Uefi) fusion e-350 system with Tumbleweed-Installation?
Grub2 runs fine so far, except, that it does not display the bios messages or the bios itself when connectet to my yamahy-receiver and then to the TV. When I connect it directly to the TV everything is fineā¦ so I wanted to try if grub2-efi could fix this, but only when it is 99,5% safe
p.s. i always wondered why it works with grub2 even if it is a efi bios and there is NO option to change bios-mode to legacy / non-efi or something like thisā¦
On Thu 28 Feb 2013 07:56:01 PM CST, tomtomme wrote:
Hello
is it safe to replace grub2 with grub2-efi on my EFI (not Uefi) fusion
e-350 system with Tumbleweed-Installation?
Grub2 runs fine so far, except, that it does not display the bios
messages or the bios itself when connectet to my yamahy-receiver and
then to the TV. When I connect it directly to the TV everything is
fineā¦ so I wanted to try if grub2-efi could fix this, but only when it
is 99,5% safe
p.s. i always wondered why it works with grub2 even if it is a efi bios
and there is NO option to change bios-mode to legacy / non-efi or
something like thisā¦
thx, t
Hi
Because you BIOS doesnāt know how to go through that intermediary
device on power on, it may take time for the device to recognize your
computer booting, with that delay the bios screen has been and gone.
When you first power up the system, press the BIOS key to enter the
setupā¦eg del, F2 etc and wait, does it get to the BIOS then via the
device?
Sure your not running grub2-efi already? Check via YaST bootloader.
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Cheers Malcolm Ā°ĀæĀ° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.28-2.20-desktop
up 3 days 17:17, 4 users, load average: 0.14, 0.10, 0.07
CPU IntelĀ® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU IntelĀ® Ironlake Mobile
I can go to bios via F2 and can navigate by guessing ^^ it is not visibleā¦ same with the boot-device-dialogue that is accessable via F8 - not visible but usable if you know the drive-order by heart.
what i forgot to say - the red AMI-Bios Graphic is visible in each case (with or without TV). But with TV the RAM and ATA information that usually come below the logo are not visible as the BIOS itselfā¦
double checked that. yast bootloader says grub2 only - grub2-efi is selectable however. the package must have been installed automatically via the auto-selections which yast does sometimesā¦
so I only would have to switch to grub2-efi in the yast bootloader menue - how safe is that, since grub2 is still called experimental here and thereā¦?
On Sat 02 Mar 2013 12:06:02 PM CST, tomtomme wrote:
malcolmlewis;2530855 Wrote:
> Hi
> Because you BIOS doesnāt know how to go through that intermediary
> device on power on, it may take time for the device to recognize your
> computer booting, with that delay the bios screen has been and gone.
>
> When you first power up the system, press the BIOS key to enter the
> setupā¦eg del, F2 etc and wait, does it get to the BIOS then via the
> device?
I can go to bios via F2 and can navigate by guessing ^^ it is not
visibleā¦ same with the boot-device-dialogue that is accessable via F8
not visible but usable if you know the drive-order by heart.
what i forgot to say - the red AMI-Bios Graphic is visible in each case
(with or without TV). But with TV the RAM and ATA information that
usually come below the logo are not visible as the BIOS itselfā¦
malcolmlewis;2530855 Wrote:
>
> Sure your not running grub2-efi already? Check via YaST bootloader.
>
double checked that. yast bootloader says grub2 only - grub2-efi is
selectable however. the package must have been installed automatically
via the auto-selections which yast does sometimesā¦
so I only would have to switch to grub2-efi in the yast bootloader
menue - how safe is that, since grub2 is still called experimental here
and thereā¦?
Hi
So you have a /boot/efi/EFI directory with files? I think there are
some articles on the forum on switching over.
There are no manufacturer BIOS updates for the issue of not seing the
info displayed?
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Cheers Malcolm Ā°ĀæĀ° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.28-2.20-desktop
up 6 days 13:35, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.05
CPU IntelĀ® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU IntelĀ® Ironlake Mobile
