Bug#538730: grub-efi-amd64: cant find prefix

[A Mennucc]

hmm there was a mistake in the menu, the name of the initrd file was 
misspelled; I corrected it and still I cannot boot, now grub says that 
there is no kernel loaded

a.

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:35:12AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
> retitle 538730 "grub-efi-amd64: cant boot linux"
> thanks
>
> Felix Zielcke ha scritto:
>> Am Sonntag, den 26.07.2009, 18:11 +0200 schrieb A Mennucc:
>>
>>> 6) create EFI image
>>>  # grub-mkimage  -o /efi/efi/grub/grub.efi -p /efi/efi/grub
>>
>> You need to include all modules needed to access /efi/efi/grub into
>> grub.efi.
>> Like grub-mkimage -o /efi/efi/grub/grub.efi -p /efi/grub gpt fat
>> The TestingOnEFI page also lists normal and sh mode. I don't know if
>> they're really needed with EFI to be included directly.
>
> hi,
>
> thanks alot, I did a lot of progress  with your help (and it was indeed  
> my fault, I did not use the correct command line)
>
> so now I can boot the Mac OS/X using grub-efi and the attached menu ;  
> but I cannot boot linux
>
> if I switch to command line mode, what I experience is as if there is a  
> bug such that GRUB forgets about commands: that is, many commands do not  
> return any  outputs  ; or sometimes they report an output the first time  
> I use them, and no output from there on
>
> a.
>

> set timeout=10
> menuentry "MacOSX" {
>   # Set the root device for Mac OS X's loader.
>   set root=(hd0,2)
>   # Load the loader.
>   chainloader /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi
> }
> menuentry "GNU/Linux" {
>   # Set the root device for GNU/Linux.
>   #search --set /boot/vmlinuz
>   set root=(hd0,1)
>   # Load the kernel and initrd.
>   linux /boot-fresh/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686 video=vesafb agp=off acpi=force libata.atapi_enabled=1  root=UUID=b36cdc79-6a50-46e5-8ab0-bc05238ca3bc  gpt
>   initrd /boot-fresh/initrd-2.6.30-1-686
>   boot
> }
> 


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