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[Mactel-linux-devel] Gentoo installed on iMac 17''

[Roberto G. <gri...@gm...>]

Thank you all, some minutes ago ive finished to install with success result
gentoo distro on my imac 17''.

It starts from the same HD which is just installed macosx :)

I've create 2 partiotn with parted, first for swap, second for root.

Tomorrow, i'll try to repet the experiment on mac book pro :)

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] Gentoo installed on iMac 17''

[David B. <ma...@da...>]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 01:57:59AM +0100, Roberto Griso wrote:

> Thank you all, some minutes ago ive finished to install with success result
> gentoo distro on my imac 17''.

I've got Gentoo up and running on my Mac Mini.  I used the kernel patches
from CVS.  I had to use a video height slightly less than my framebuffer
size, since it seems to be starting the framebuffer a few rows down.  (I
have a 1600x1200 LCD display).

I had to build squashfs and unionfs to get the ubunto rescue disc working.
I don't need these for my Gentoo system, though.

I originally tried installing on a firewire drive, but got kernel panics
when trying to unpack the state3 tarball onto a reiserfs filesystem on the
firewire drive.  Things seem to work fine on the internal drive.

Xorg is building now.  With MAKEOPTS="-j5", this little computer builds
significantly faster than anything else I have.

At some point, I'm going to try building elilo and rEFIt myself.

David Brown

[Mactel-linux-devel] Gentoo on Mac Mini

[<rfl...@la...>]

Hi all,

I successfully installed gentoo on my new mac mini thanks to patches =20
and instructions found on the website.
It is installed on the hard disk in a separate partition. refit, =20
elilo and my kernel are installed on a usb key. So when I want to =20
boot Linux I have to press the option key and choose Linux. It's =20
fine, but loading the kernel from the usb key is quite long (usb 1). =20
I'd like to let elilo on the usb key, but put the kernel on my ext3 =20
partition. Elilo doesn't seem to see my ext3 partition (when I press =20
"=3D" ), which seems strange to me. Is it normal ? Is it possible to =20
boot directly from an ext3 partition or do I have to put the kernel =20
on a hpfs or fat partition ?

Also, I was wondering, *if* linux kernel were able to write in hpfs =20
partitions, couldn't we just put an entire Linux system in the same =20
partition than macosX ? Like install it in /Linux and pivot root at =20
boot time ?

I think I'm going to write a tutorial in french on how to install =20
gentoo on a mac mini. Once it will be done, may I put it in the wiki ?

Thank you,

Regards,

R=E9mi Flament.=