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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Knuth,

	Are you disabling the NVidia card in any way? If so, what are you using 
and are you getting the hda-intel errors at boot time?

Adam.


On Tuesday 28 September 2010 18:47:06 K. Posern wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Good Question! ... I guess for me a vanilla Kernel was so implicit that
> I forgot to mention it ;)
> 
> So I use this mail to recap the necessary steps / ingrediants for a
> flawlessly working grub1 or grub2 intel setup without any patches.
> 
> I am using a vanilla kernel from kernel.org (+ the optional tuxonice
> patch). And: No I don't use Adams files.
> 
> Kernel Versions: First 2.6.35.4, now 2.6.35.5 (both work)
> 
> For grub1:
> Nothing special
> 
> For grub2:
> Then with a ready setup grub2 installation just try editing your boot
> entry and replace
> 	initrd with initrd16
> 	and
> 	linux with linux16
> and hit ctrl+x to boot like this.
> 
> If this is not enough then you need to make sure that grub does NOT
> initialize any GRAPHICS --> put "set gfxpayload=text" in your grub.cfg.
> 
> But as the grub.cfg often is quiet LONG with an auto-generated grub.cfg
> you might need to remove all stuff that tempers with your GRAPHIC-CARD
> --> To be sure: Try my below grub.cfg (and adapt it for your partitions).
> 
> ===========================================================
> set gfxpayload=text
> set timeout=7 #
> 
> menuentry "Linux working :)" {
>  # remember: hd's start counting at 0, but parts at 1
>  set root=(hd0,5)
>  linux16 /vmlinuz 'quiet' 'i8042.reset' ...
> }
> ===========================================================
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Knuth
> 
> ---
> 
> On 09/28/2010 01:57 AM, Aleix Solà wrote:
> > Do you use Adam's files? Which kernel version are you using?
> > At the moment i'm only getting the typical blank screen.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > 2010/9/15, K. Posern <quickhelp@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Hi everybody,
> >> 
> >> grub2 + intel works like charm (just the same as grub1 ;)...
> >> 
> >> The secret: linux16 instead of linux (and initrd16 instead of initrd for
> >> those who need it).
> >> 
> >> Good night,
> >> 
> >> Knuth
> >> 
> >> P.S.:
> >> Only the 2.6.36-rc remain broken (with grub1 and grub2).
> >> I will keep you posted...