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[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@xxxxxxx>]

Maybe you need to dump the video bios and load it in grub
See at the end of http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

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grub.efi fails to load  kernel  2.6.25 or 2.6.26
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259986
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “grub2” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
grub-efi_1.96+20080512-1ubuntu2_i386

on my macbook (see below): 

 grub.efi from the ubuntu grub-efi package :

	grub-efi_1.96+20080512-1ubuntu2_i386.deb

		is broken. 

grub.efi made with all modules and installed manually fails
to load ubuntu kernels 

 vmlinuz-2.6.26-5-generic
 vmlinuz-2.6.26-5-generic
 vmlinuz-2.6.25-1-386
 and others.

and has bugs in its command line.

It does manage to chainload macosx. boot.efi

I use grub.efi made by grub-mkimage compiled from the grub2 gnu source, it works.

http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/grub2/?root=grub

Platform:
# dmidecode -t system
# dmidecode 2.9
# SMBIOS entry point at 0x3eebf000
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
	Product Name: MacBook2,1
	Version: 1.0
	Serial Number: W8717FYXWGL
	UUID: 61F9E18A-38B2-B440-A87E-7457DF18863C
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: System SKUNumber
	Family: MacBook

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 32, 20 bytes
System Boot Information
	Status: No errors detected

Handle 0x0106, DMI type 12, 5 bytes
System Configuration Options

Running kernel loaded by grub.efi (svn)

# uname -r
2.6.25-1-386