Bug#588208: Bug 588208 reproduced

[Marc Truscelli]

Hello all,

This is to notify that I experienced this bug today.

Following a re-install of my system on a new hard drive, I had to run grub-install and update-grub. As a result, the bug 588208 occurred, whereby I had no video at all until a linux kernel was loaded.

Machine is 32 bits mac mini intel with core 2 duo processor.
Distribution is based on Debian sid, and grub-efi version is shown below (2.02~beta2-22).

As in the e-mail thread linked to the bug, I was able to recover by:
1) boot (blindly) into Mac OS X
2) leave the machine go to sleep
3) video was back when resuming
4) In terminal, "nvram -c" to clear all variables
5) Reset NVRAM at reboot (cmd+opt+P+R) to be sure...

Not sure if grub2 updates will break it again?

I am happy to do any test if requested.

Thank you,

Best regards

Marc Truscelli

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#apt-cache show grub-efi-ia32
Package: grub-efi-ia32
Source: grub2
Version: 2.02~beta2-22
Installed-Size: 167
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <pkg-grub-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Replaces: grub, grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-coreboot, grub-efi, grub-efi-amd64, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub2 (<< 2.02~beta2-22)
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, grub-common (= 2.02~beta2-22), grub2-common (= 2.02~beta2-22), grub-efi-ia32-bin (= 2.02~beta2-22), ucf
Conflicts: elilo, grub (<< 0.97-54), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-amd64, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub-xen
Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 version)
 GRUB is a portable, powerful bootloader.  This version of GRUB is based on a
 cleaner design than its predecessors, and provides the following new features:
 .
  - Scripting in grub.cfg using BASH-like syntax.
  - Support for modern partition maps such as GPT.
  - Modular generation of grub.cfg via update-grub.  Packages providing GRUB
    add-ons can plug in their own script rules and trigger updates by invoking
    update-grub.
 .
 This package contains a version of GRUB that has been built for use with
 EFI-IA32 architecture, such as the one provided by Intel Macs (that is, unless
 a BIOS interface has been activated).
Description-md5: 0b211963be056bf8e983c31763cd0a45
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Section: admin
Priority: extra
Filename: pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi-ia32_2.02~beta2-22_i386.deb
Size: 73068
MD5sum: 3a14c78cff07d78ecb359713e66592ef
SHA1: 40ffd1d70dc01f0cf704d5703f732d16ddc9a49a
SHA256: 13ec039cca2545e3a1b61cedb876a7a722e379e6a15045b977c7afbbc0ab8061