EFI report w/ linux 2.6.26.2

[Isaac Dupree]

I tested with both video=vesafb and video=efifb on a 
self-compiled Linux-2.6.26.2 with a config based on 
Ubuntu's, both with my own compile of GRUB SVN head and with 
Bean's grub2-efi compile that had mysteriously worked better 
for me in some ways.

linux /... video=...fb agp=off root=/dev/sda4 gpt
initrd /...
boot

+ loading the 50MB initrd worked fine (I have no idea why my 
self-compiled Linux .ko modules are 5x the size of Ubuntu's :-)
+ it booted fine, except the graphics and sound (I could 
tell because of listening to disk noises and pressing the 
power button on the login screen did a clean shutdown as 
normal for Ubuntu; maybe I should've checked ssh-ing)
- Linux failed at graphics both in console and X: Linux made 
a funny pattern on the screen that didn't change (though it 
was different the two times I tried booting through EFI).
- No sound when there probably should've been

maybe I'm still doing something wrong, I dunno :-) ... BIOS 
boot is still working great.  Although, I tried putting 
grub2-bios on a USB Flash drive's MBR[is that the right 
terminology? it is partitioned, not superfloppy], and when I 
tried booting from it on my MacBook, rEFIt told me that 
booting it failed and that it's probably because Apple's 
support for USB-boot is not very good.  So I don't think I 
got even as far as the point of discovering whether grub 
worked (it had mentioned an odd device.map(IIRC) to me when 
installing).

-Isaac