From: Michael K. <mi...@en...> - 2006-04-23 11:22:01
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Hi, I'm a happy owner of a MacBook Pro and I have put Gentoo Linux on it but NO Windows (I even do not have a copy of it). I have updated the firmware to version 1.0.1 and I have used the diskutil GUI program from the installation dvd to repartition my harddisk into several partitions. Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 80GB Disk label type: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 20kB 210MB 210MB fat16 EFI System Partition boot 2 210MB 1149MB 940MB linux-swap Apple_UFS_Untitled_1 3 1149MB 1364MB 215MB ext2 Apple_UFS_Untitled_2 4 1364MB 23GB 21GB ext3 Apple_UFS_Untitled_3 5 23GB 64GB 41GB ext3 Apple_UFS_Untitled_4 6 64GB 80GB 16GB hfs+ Apple_HFS_Untitled_5 The problem is that the ATI driver doesn't work without BIOS and the firmware only activates the BIOS emulation if it finds not "old bootcode" (or whatever it is searching for). I cannot install grub-0.97 without having legacy MBR partition table but shouldn't it work with lilo, because lilo addresses the vmlinuz using sector addressing? Another possibility might be grub-1.93 because it can use GPT partition tables. I have tried all but without success. So, I think the root of all my problems is that I cannot activate the BIOS emulation and that I have more than 4 partitions (because MBR partition tables cannot have more than 4 primary partitions). This I can solve by using grub-1.93 or lilo(?). But it doesn't seem that the firmware recognizes this. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. What do I have to do so that the firmware of my macbook pro recognizes the grub or lilo code and activates the BIOS emulation??? I have not yet installed lilo or grub on /dev/sda but on /dev/sda1 (the hidden fat partition) and on /dev/sda3 (/boot) and /dev/sda4 (/). Please help me to activate the BIOS emulation mode. Best Regards, Michael btw: currently I'm using X with fbdev driver. The touchpad works as expected and the improved backlight control works great (except that values under 33 disable the backlight). |
From: <fe...@gr...> - 2006-04-23 12:39:57
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Hi Michael, > I think the root of all my problems is that I cannot activate the BIOS > emulation and that I have more than 4 partitions (because MBR > partition > tables cannot have more than 4 primary partitions). This I can > solve by using > grub-1.93 or lilo(?). But it doesn't seem that the firmware > recognizes this. > As far as I understood it, the new Firmware (aka Bootcamp) only activates BIOS Compability when it boots from CDROM or when it boots the windows bootloader (NTLDR). Thus, to use the ATI drivers you have to boot through NTLDR (or CDROM). Although it might be possible to activate the BIOS in refit for example, it has not yet been done, Chrisp is working on this[1]. Concerning GRUB: GRUB2 will not work better than GRUB1 because both put stage1.5 code at the beginning of the parition if you setup ( hd0,2 ). I was able to chainload NTLDR->GRUB1 but GRUB crashed _after_ stage1.5, with "Loading Grub...". just FYI. cheers, Felix [1] http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Talk:Boot_Alternatives |
From: Michael K. <mi...@en...> - 2006-04-23 15:00:49
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Hi Felix, thank you for your answer. Am Sonntag 23 April 2006 14:39 schrieb Felix Gr=F6bert: > As far as I understood it, the new Firmware (aka Bootcamp) only > activates BIOS Compability when it boots from CDROM or when it boots > the windows bootloader (NTLDR). > Thus, to use the ATI drivers you have to boot through NTLDR (or > CDROM). Although it might be possible to activate the BIOS in refit > for example, it has not yet been done, Chrisp is working on this[1]. Thanks for the hint with Chrisp. In the worst case I will wait until Chrisp= 's=20 work is done. I also tried to boot grub-0.97 from CD-ROM but without success. The Firmwar= e=20 is activating the BIOS emulation but grub is not able to load (I don't know= =20 it anymore, but there was only the first line of grub shown...loading stage= =20 1.5 or something similar). I also tried an OpenSolaris boot CD which also=20 uses grub (it was in the C't or iX magazine) with the same result. > > Concerning GRUB: GRUB2 will not work better than GRUB1 because both > put stage1.5 code at the beginning of the parition if you setup I read that in grub2 there will be no stage 1.5 anymore. But I don't know i= f=20 it is already the case in 1.93 (which I use). > ( hd0,2 ). I was able to chainload NTLDR->GRUB1 but GRUB crashed > _after_ stage1.5, with "Loading Grub...". just FYI. > > cheers, Felix > > [1] http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Talk:Boot_Alternatives Best Regards, Michael |
From: Jools S. <jo...@ox...> - 2006-04-23 13:05:15
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On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:39, Felix Gr=F6bert wrote: > As far as I understood it, the new Firmware (aka Bootcamp) only > activates BIOS Compability when it boots from CDROM or when it boots > the windows bootloader (NTLDR). > Thus, to use the ATI drivers you have to boot through NTLDR (or > CDROM). Although it might be possible to activate the BIOS in refit > for example, it has not yet been done, Chrisp is working on this[1]. It works with linux too. I repartitioned on cfdisk, making 2 partitions. ex= t3=20 and swap. Nothing else. The new firmware will boot lilo of the MBR=20 on /dev/sda. This is true on my Mac mini anyway. It boots it as a last=20 priority though, so a cd will take priority over it. Best Regards Jools =2D-=20 IT Consultant Oxford Inspire t: 01235 519446 m: 07966 577498 jo...@ox... |
From: Michael K. <mi...@en...> - 2006-04-23 14:52:48
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Hi Jools, thanks for the answer. But this will delete your GPT partition table, corre= ct?=20 And this makes it impossible to boot MacOS X? Best Regards, Michael Am Sonntag 23 April 2006 15:04 schrieb Jools Smyth: > On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:39, Felix Gr=F6bert wrote: > > As far as I understood it, the new Firmware (aka Bootcamp) only > > activates BIOS Compability when it boots from CDROM or when it boots > > the windows bootloader (NTLDR). > > Thus, to use the ATI drivers you have to boot through NTLDR (or > > CDROM). Although it might be possible to activate the BIOS in refit > > for example, it has not yet been done, Chrisp is working on this[1]. > > It works with linux too. I repartitioned on cfdisk, making 2 partitions. > ext3 and swap. Nothing else. The new firmware will boot lilo of the MBR on > /dev/sda. This is true on my Mac mini anyway. It boots it as a last > priority though, so a cd will take priority over it. > > Best Regards > > Jools |
From: Jools S. <jo...@ox...> - 2006-04-23 16:04:27
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On Sunday 23 April 2006 15:52, Michael Kaufmann wrote: > Hi Jools, > > thanks for the answer. But this will delete your GPT partition table, > correct? And this makes it impossible to boot MacOS X? Yes. I have no requirement for macosx. My mac mini was bought to use as a web/mail server. Best Regards Jools -- IT Consultant Oxford Inspire t: 01235 519446 m: 07966 577498 jo...@ox... |
From: Nicholas T. <nic...@gm...> - 2006-04-23 20:08:14
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Jools, did you have to do anything special to get the system to see the disk? Are you using any of the tools mentioned, like rEFIt? Every time I try to boot into the linux partition, it tells me there's no valid boot device. (I left my OS X partition to see if I could get it to dual-boot, but honestly I have no need for it, it was just to see if it would work.) Currently I've got two partitions, the first ~55G is OS X, the 2nd ~25G is an ext3 filesystem (with a swapfile on it). I installed lilo onto the MBR. I can hold down option to choose OS X, which still boots fine, but I just get that error when I try to boot linux. I think the next thing I try will be to just do as you mentioned, blow the entire disk away, and reformat the whole thing for linux. I wonder if it's hitting the old BIOS limit and needs /boot to be up near the front of the disk... Thanks, Nicholas On 4/23/06, Jools Smyth <jo...@ox...> wrote: > > On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:39, Felix Gr=F6bert wrote: > > As far as I understood it, the new Firmware (aka Bootcamp) only > > activates BIOS Compability when it boots from CDROM or when it boots > > the windows bootloader (NTLDR). > > Thus, to use the ATI drivers you have to boot through NTLDR (or > > CDROM). Although it might be possible to activate the BIOS in refit > > for example, it has not yet been done, Chrisp is working on this[1]. > > It works with linux too. I repartitioned on cfdisk, making 2 partitions. > ext3 > and swap. Nothing else. The new firmware will boot lilo of the MBR > on /dev/sda. This is true on my Mac mini anyway. It boots it as a last > priority though, so a cd will take priority over it. > > Best Regards > > Jools > -- > IT Consultant > Oxford Inspire > t: 01235 519446 m: 07966 577498 > jo...@ox... > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronim= o > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmdlnk&kid=120709&bid&3057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > |
From: Jools S. <jo...@ox...> - 2006-04-23 23:03:30
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On Sunday 23 April 2006 21:08, Nicholas Tang wrote: > Jools, did you have to do anything special to get the system to see the > disk? Are you using any of the tools mentioned, like rEFIt? Every time I > try to boot into the linux partition, it tells me there's no valid boot > device. (I left my OS X partition to see if I could get it to dual-boot, > but honestly I have no need for it, it was just to see if it would work.) no. It just worked. I'm not using any boot manager. Just mac min with new firmware, and a hard disk formatted with mgr partition type. Best Regards Jools -- IT Consultant Oxford Inspire t: 01235 519446 m: 07966 577498 jo...@ox... |
From: Nicholas T. <nic...@gm...> - 2006-04-23 23:33:48
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Ok, just one other question... since my system is now working, but not detecting the ethernet card, do you know which kernel mods you had to enabl= e to get that to work? I'm playing with different options and rebooting, but if you've got a working kernel .config I could diff against it I'd be forever in your debt... :) Thanks, Nicholas |
From: <fe...@gr...> - 2006-04-24 06:44:28
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Am 24.04.2006 um 01:09 schrieb Nicholas Tang: > do you know which kernel mods you had to enable to get that to work? this[1] config might help. cheers, Felix [1] http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mactel-linux/trunk/misc/ misc/config-2.6.16?view=markup |
From: William S. <ws...@gm...> - 2006-04-24 06:53:50
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Hi, Following instructions on the mactel linux website and elsewhere, I setup my MacBook Pro to triple boot Linux / OSX /Windows. I kept notes, which I've posed here: http://modular.math.washington.edu/macbook/triboot/ Wiillam |
From: Nicholas T. <nic...@gm...> - 2006-04-24 06:54:12
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Yep - already found it. The problem is that I had been using 2.6.15 and as far as I can tell, the network driver I needed wasn't introduced until 2.6.16. :) Once I upgraded it worked just fine. Thanks, Nicholas On 4/24/06, Felix Gr=F6bert <fe...@gr...> wrote: > > > Am 24.04.2006 um 01:09 schrieb Nicholas Tang: > > > do you know which kernel mods you had to enable to get that to work? > > this[1] config might help. > > cheers, Felix > > [1] http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mactel-linux/trunk/misc/ > misc/config-2.6.16?view=3Dmarkup > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronim= o > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat= =3D121642 > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > |
From: Daniel K. <yl...@yl...> - 2006-04-30 12:02:50
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Sorry for late answer. On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 19:09 -0400, Nicholas Tang wrote: > Ok, just one other question... since my system is now working, but not > detecting the ethernet card, do you know which kernel mods you > had to enable to get that to work? On Mac Mini, the module 'sk98lin' should work. The module 'skge' which is the new generation of Syskonnects driver didn't work here. Greez - Dan |
From: Michael K. <mi...@en...> - 2006-04-24 19:24:22
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Hi, I still have all my problems but as far as I understand they are solveable. Can someone please tell me how he/she did this? First my preconditions: * I have 6 paritions. I can delete 2 of them if neccessary but I cannot reformat them because there is important data on it. * I have no bios emulation enabled and I have only GPT parition tables. * I have tried to install lilo on /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 but without success. Grub deleted my parition table but I could restore it (backup). * I have no windows (even no windows cds) What I want is: * Activate BIOS emulation. I think this should work by installing lilo or "mbr" (see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~neilt/mbr/) because if they are on CD the BIOS emulation is activated. Have tried to install grub on CD but without success (hang at "loading stagr 1.5" or so). * Clone GPT partition table to a mbr partition table (I think I have to delete 2 partitions for this). * Use the closed source ati driver fglrx for hardware acceleration. Secondary goals: * Get full keyboard support, get a correct keymap. * Get a second mouse button by using mac_hid (in the kernel) Has someone got this working under my preconditions? I just cannot get this working. Thanks, Michael Nicholas Tang wrote: > Yep - already found it. The problem is that I had been using 2.6.15 > and as far as I can tell, the network driver I needed wasn't > introduced until 2.6.16. :) Once I upgraded it worked just fine. > > Thanks, > Nicholas > > On 4/24/06, *Felix Gröbert* <fe...@gr... > <mailto:fe...@gr...>> wrote: > > > Am 24.04.2006 um 01:09 schrieb Nicholas Tang: > > > do you know which kernel mods you had to enable to get that to work? > > this[1] config might help. > > cheers, Felix > > [1] http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mactel-linux/trunk/misc/ > misc/config-2.6.16?view=markup > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > <http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642> > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > <mailto:Mac...@li...> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > |
From: Miguel F. <mig...@gm...> - 2006-04-24 19:57:53
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Hi, On 4/24/06, Michael Kaufmann <mi...@en...> wrote: > Hi, > > I still have all my problems but as far as I understand they are > solveable. Can someone please tell me how he/she did this? > First my preconditions: > * I have 6 paritions. I can delete 2 of them if neccessary but I cannot > reformat them because there is important data on it. > * I have no bios emulation enabled and I have only GPT parition tables. > * I have tried to install lilo on /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 but > without success. Grub deleted my parition table but I could restore it > (backup). > * I have no windows (even no windows cds) > > What I want is: > * Activate BIOS emulation. I think this should work by installing lilo > or "mbr" (see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~neilt/mbr/) because if > they are on CD the BIOS emulation is activated. Have tried to install > grub on CD but without success (hang at "loading stagr 1.5" or so). > * Clone GPT partition table to a mbr partition table (I think I have to > delete 2 partitions for this). > * Use the closed source ati driver fglrx for hardware acceleration. > Just to say that this is also what I want. I didn't check mbr yet.. but thought about manually duplicating the partition table, and I'll give it a try. I'l post progress here. > Secondary goals: > * Get full keyboard support, get a correct keymap. > * Get a second mouse button by using mac_hid (in the kernel) > > Has someone got this working under my preconditions? I just cannot get > this working. > > Thanks, > Michael > > Nicholas Tang wrote: > > Yep - already found it. The problem is that I had been using 2.6.15 > > and as far as I can tell, the network driver I needed wasn't > > introduced until 2.6.16. :) Once I upgraded it worked just fine. > > > > Thanks, > > Nicholas > > > > On 4/24/06, *Felix Gr=F6bert* <fe...@gr... > > <mailto:fe...@gr...>> wrote: > > > > > > Am 24.04.2006 um 01:09 schrieb Nicholas Tang: > > > > > do you know which kernel mods you had to enable to get that to wo= rk? > > > > this[1] config might help. > > > > cheers, Felix > > > > [1] http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mactel-linux/trunk/misc/ > > misc/config-2.6.16?view=3Dmarkup > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > > security? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > > job easier > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > > Geronimo > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057= &dat=3D121642 > > <http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D26305= 7&dat=3D121642> > > _______________________________________________ > > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > > Mac...@li... > > <mailto:Mac...@li...> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job ea= sier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronim= o > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat= =3D121642 > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > -- Miguel Sousa Filipe |
From: Michael K. <mi...@en...> - 2006-04-24 20:10:40
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Hi, > Just to say that this is also what I want. > I didn't check mbr yet.. but thought about manually duplicating the > partition table, and I'll give it a try. > I'l post progress here. > > The problem with manually duplicating the partition table is that all but the diskutil (from macosx) deletes the other partition table. At least I read that. Best Regards, Michael |
From: Nicholas T. <nic...@gm...> - 2006-04-24 21:02:40
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Michael, The process that worked for me was quite easy, in the end (there was a lot of trial and error, but...): 1.) Boot into OS X and run Boot Camp to set up the box w/ BIOS emulation; when they prompt to insert the Windows install CD, just pop in the linux install CD. You might be able to do this by blowing away the two partition= s you mentioned, reinstalling OS X onto them, and then running Boot Camp. Boot Camp makes this process easy; without it, I'm not sure how doable this is. 2.) Format the disks, blowing away the existing partitions, as a normal linux box. I used fdisk, since cfdisk choked on it - fdisk couldn't see th= e partitions, but it could blow them away if I remember correctly. :) Parte= d also worked from what I recall. Once the GPT partitions have been blown away, though, cfdisk will work fine. 3.) Do a manual install, building your own kernel (see above - 2.6.16 w/ patches from the Mactel site), and installing LILO to the MBR on the system disk. I used Gentoo, but any flavor that allows you to build your own kernels and manually configure things should work just fine. That was it, literally. Nicholas On 4/24/06, Michael Kaufmann <mi...@en...> wrote: > > Hi, > > I still have all my problems but as far as I understand they are > solveable. Can someone please tell me how he/she did this? > First my preconditions: > * I have 6 paritions. I can delete 2 of them if neccessary but I cannot > reformat them because there is important data on it. > * I have no bios emulation enabled and I have only GPT parition tables. > * I have tried to install lilo on /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 but > without success. Grub deleted my parition table but I could restore it > (backup). > * I have no windows (even no windows cds) > > What I want is: > * Activate BIOS emulation. I think this should work by installing lilo > or "mbr" (see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~neilt/mbr/) because if > they are on CD the BIOS emulation is activated. Have tried to install > grub on CD but without success (hang at "loading stagr 1.5" or so). > * Clone GPT partition table to a mbr partition table (I think I have to > delete 2 partitions for this). > * Use the closed source ati driver fglrx for hardware acceleration. > > Secondary goals: > * Get full keyboard support, get a correct keymap. > * Get a second mouse button by using mac_hid (in the kernel) > > Has someone got this working under my preconditions? I just cannot get > this working. > > Thanks, > Michael > > Nicholas Tang wrote: > > Yep - already found it. The problem is that I had been using 2.6.15 > > and as far as I can tell, the network driver I needed wasn't > > introduced until 2.6.16. :) Once I upgraded it worked just fine. > > > > Thanks, > > Nicholas > > > > On 4/24/06, *Felix Gr=F6bert* <fe...@gr... > > <mailto:fe...@gr...>> wrote: > > > > > > Am 24.04.2006 um 01:09 schrieb Nicholas Tang: > > > > > do you know which kernel mods you had to enable to get that to > work? > > > > this[1] config might help. > > > > cheers, Felix > > > > [1] http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mactel-linux/trunk/misc/ > > misc/config-2.6.16?view=3Dmarkup > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > > security? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > > job easier > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > > Geronimo > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat= =3D121642 > > < > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat= =3D121642> > > _______________________________________________ > > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > > Mac...@li... > > <mailto:Mac...@li...> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronim= o > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat= =3D121642 > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > |
From: Miguel F. <mig...@gm...> - 2006-04-26 11:31:45
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On 4/24/06, Nicholas Tang <nic...@gm...> wrote: > > Michael, > > The process that worked for me was quite easy, in the end (there was a lo= t > of trial and error, but...): > > 1.) Boot into OS X and run Boot Camp to set up the box w/ BIOS emulation; > when they prompt to insert the Windows install CD, just pop in the linux > install CD. You might be able to do this by blowing away the two partiti= ons > you mentioned, reinstalling OS X onto them, and then running Boot Camp. > Boot Camp makes this process easy; without it, I'm not sure how doable th= is > is. > Just a side note, bootcamp only works with single partition drives, it aborts otherwise. using GPT partitions and a "fake replicated" partition table seems to work only with fdisk and cfdisk, cfdisk fails to work with the fake partition table. > 2.) Format the disks, blowing away the existing partitions, as a normal > linux box. I used fdisk, since cfdisk choked on it - fdisk couldn't see = the > partitions, but it could blow them away if I remember correctly. :) Par= ted > also worked from what I recall. Once the GPT partitions have been blown > away, though, cfdisk will work fine. > > 3.) Do a manual install, building your own kernel (see above - 2.6.16 w/ > patches from the Mactel site), and installing LILO to the MBR on the syst= em > disk. I used Gentoo, but any flavor that allows you to build your own > kernels and manually configure things should work just fine. > > That was it, literally. > > Nicholas > > > On 4/24/06, Michael Kaufmann <mi...@en...> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I still have all my problems but as far as I understand they are > > solveable. Can someone please tell me how he/she did this? > > First my preconditions: > > * I have 6 paritions. I can delete 2 of them if neccessary but I cannot > > reformat them because there is important data on it. > > * I have no bios emulation enabled and I have only GPT parition tables. > > * I have tried to install lilo on /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 but > > without success. Grub deleted my parition table but I could restore it > > (backup). > > * I have no windows (even no windows cds) > > > > What I want is: > > * Activate BIOS emulation. I think this should work by installing lilo > > or "mbr" (see > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~neilt/mbr/) because if > > they are on CD the BIOS emulation is activated. Have tried to install > > grub on CD but without success (hang at "loading stagr 1.5" or so). > > * Clone GPT partition table to a mbr partition table (I think I have to > > delete 2 partitions for this). > > * Use the closed source ati driver fglrx for hardware acceleration. > > > > Secondary goals: > > * Get full keyboard support, get a correct keymap. > > * Get a second mouse button by using mac_hid (in the kernel) > > > > Has someone got this working under my preconditions? I just cannot get > > this working. > > > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > > Nicholas Tang wrote: > > > Yep - already found it. The problem is that I had been using 2.6.15 > > > and as far as I can tell, the network driver I needed wasn't > > > introduced until 2.6.16. :) Once I upgraded it worked just fine. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Nicholas > > > > > > On 4/24/06, *Felix Gr=F6bert* < fe...@gr... > > > <mailto:fe...@gr...>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Am 24.04.2006 um 01:09 schrieb Nicholas Tang: > > > > > > > do you know which kernel mods you had to enable to get that to > work? > > > > > > this[1] config might help. > > > > > > cheers, Felix > > > > > > [1] > http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mactel-linux/trunk/misc/ > > > misc/config-2.6.16?view=3Dmarkup > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > > > security? > > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make you= r > > > job easier > > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > > > Geronimo > > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat= =3D121642 > > > < > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat= =3D121642> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > > > Mac...@li... > > > <mailto:Mac...@li...> > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, securit= y? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geron= imo > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat= =3D121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > > Mac...@li... > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > > -- Miguel Sousa Filipe |