Hey GRUB devs,
I've been having some trouble getting GRUB2 to load Arch x86_64 on my ASUS G73SW-A1. Specifically, if I do not specify noefi on the kernel command line in my grub.cfg everything stalls at initrd. I'm building GRUB2 from the bzr repo, so to my knowledge it should be up-to-date.
I substituted noefi for add_efi_memmap and added set debug=all before initrd is used.
The system stalled again, but I did get some debugging output. A link to the output is below; apologies for having to take a picture with my cell phone as the laptop does not have a usable serial port for capture.
I should point out that adding set debug=all appears to stall the system at the same point even if noefi is still set for the kernel... so perhaps this stall is not indicative of the initrd failure. I read through the thread suggesting that there was a bug present with system over 8GB, but it was my impression that the bug was patched.
If I can provide any additional info or take any additional debugging steps, please let me know.