[Bug 26891] Radeon KMS fails with inaccessible AtomBIOS on systems with (U)EFI boot

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Sun Sep 16 23:23:27 PDT 2012


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26891

Moritz Schlarb <moschlar at metalabs.de> changed:

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--- Comment #40 from Moritz Schlarb <moschlar at metalabs.de> 2012-09-17 06:23:27 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #39)
> From what I've been told, you need to boot using the EFI stub method and not a
> boot-loader.  Also, you may need to pass some kernel options (eg initrd) so the
> easiest way to do this is from within an EFI shell.
Do you have any more details on that? I'd like to try it!
> How are you booting the kernel?
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3
I have never needed an initrd, all required modules are built in...

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