Bug#565576: grub2 does not boot macbookpro5.3 in efi mode

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

Package: grub-efi-amd64
Version: 1.98~20100115-1
Severity: important

I followed instructions from
http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

with these commands:

menuentry "Linux" {
  search /vmlinuz
    linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 video=efifb

but grub2 hangs with

[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x2af250]

370
380
420
Trampoline at 0x3b0000, code32=100000, real_mode_mem=0x89000
error: no suitable mode found.
Booting however

No output == hang after Booting however ...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.3-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-efi-amd64 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.28          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.98~20100115-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-5        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  ucf                      3.0025          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-efi-amd64 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-efi-amd64 suggests:
ii  efibootmgr                    0.5.4-2    Interact with the EFI Boot Manager
ii  os-prober                     1.35       utility to detect other OSes on a