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From: mike d. <fl...@po...> - 2011-11-28 22:26:13
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Hey there, Johannes Graumann said: > So ... hehe ... when is your howto forthcoming ?;) Here's a first writeup: http://dentifrice.poivron.org/laptops/macbookpro8,2/ I just did it quickly before I forget everything, so some things must be missing, but this should get you started. As for now, I have a working pure EFI system on my MacBookPro8,2 late 2011, except for the following: * sd card reader; * keyboard backlight; * screen backlight (works, needs improvement); Please contribute tips and fixes! -- mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> |
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From: Jerome B. <g62...@re...> - 2011-11-22 09:19:47
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On 22/11/11 06:20, mike dentifrice wrote: > Johannes Graumann said: >>> grub-efi is not yet mature enough to with play with. >> Grrr ... > > Fortunately, that's not true. I am glad to read that some progess has been made, and that grub-efi is getting mature. I got a late 2011 MBP8,2 a few days ago, > and I'm booting in pure EFI mode using the Integrated Graphics Device > (IGD). Some issues remain though, as the radeon KMS is on by default > during the first part of the boot sequence, resulting in a black screen > or a garbled output depending upon the grub options you choose (it's a > problem for me since I need to type the passphrase for my / partition). > > There's a patch though, which I haven't managed to get working yet, see > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26891 (any help appreciatd) > > There's also a patch floating around to enable graphic switching through apple_gmux& vga_swicheroo, but I'm not there yet. > > Anyways, to get the intel working, you need to apply the i915 lvds dual > channer patch (I applied it to Linux 3.1.1 from sid): > https://github.com/fooblahblah/linux-mainline-efi-lvds/blob/master/lvds_dual_channel.patch > > You then need to add the following to grub.cfg in your menuentry: > > # Switch gmux to IGD > outb 0x728 1 > outb 0x710 2 > outb 0x740 2 > # Powers down ATI > outb 0x750 0 > > ...and the following as kernel options on the "linux" line: > > i915.lvds_channels=2 i915.modeset=1 i915.lvds_use_ssc=0 > Jerome |
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From: mike d. <fl...@po...> - 2011-11-22 05:20:38
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Johannes Graumann said: > > grub-efi is not yet mature enough to with play with. > Grrr ... Fortunately, that's not true. I got a late 2011 MBP8,2 a few days ago, and I'm booting in pure EFI mode using the Integrated Graphics Device (IGD). Some issues remain though, as the radeon KMS is on by default during the first part of the boot sequence, resulting in a black screen or a garbled output depending upon the grub options you choose (it's a problem for me since I need to type the passphrase for my / partition). There's a patch though, which I haven't managed to get working yet, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26891 (any help appreciatd) There's also a patch floating around to enable graphic switching through apple_gmux & vga_swicheroo, but I'm not there yet. Anyways, to get the intel working, you need to apply the i915 lvds dual channer patch (I applied it to Linux 3.1.1 from sid): https://github.com/fooblahblah/linux-mainline-efi-lvds/blob/master/lvds_dual_channel.patch You then need to add the following to grub.cfg in your menuentry: # Switch gmux to IGD outb 0x728 1 outb 0x710 2 outb 0x740 2 # Powers down ATI outb 0x750 0 ...and the following as kernel options on the "linux" line: i915.lvds_channels=2 i915.modeset=1 i915.lvds_use_ssc=0 -- mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> |
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From: mike d. <fl...@po...> - 2011-11-16 09:45:36
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Johannes Graumann said: > > Johannes, I'm getting a MacBookPro8,2 in less than a week, and > > running Debian on it will be top priority, so I'd be interested to > > know about your progress. > > None. Managed to rescue from all my prior experiments and have a refit > install back up and running - which is actually not very difficult to > achieve. However I have a major showstopper and that is that it seems > impossible to have optical drive access when running with refit/bios > emulation. > > I'm likely selling the thing back to IT and go for a Sager notebook. Oh, that's sad to read. Apparently, everything works including the optical drive when booting in EFI mode with some patches. See the last posts from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1695746&page=74 Cheers, -- mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> |
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From: mike d. <fl...@po...> - 2011-11-16 05:46:43
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cyberdork33 said: > What would be different for Debian ? Quite a lot of things actually. Patches (to kernel, amongst other things) tend to get integrated very fast in Ubuntu, which has quite a lively Mac user community. Pushing these changes in Debian often takes a long while. Anyways, I want to stick to Debian for a bunch of reasons. Johannes, I'm getting a MacBookPro8,2 in less than a week, and running Debian on it will be top priority, so I'd be interested to know about your progress. -- mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> |
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From: cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...> - 2011-11-02 12:05:28
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What would be different for Debian ? Ricky On Nov 2, 2011, at 4:40 AM, mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> wrote: > Johannes Graumann said: >>> There's a very long thread on Ubuntuforums about this, and many >>> people have reported success (though it involves de-activating the >>> ATI card and using the intel HD as far as I understood, *and* EFI >>> booting to be able to do so) : >>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1695746 >> >> Thanks for the link, yet I believe that's for 8,1 and there's plenty >> of howtos regarding that around. The only one on 8,2 I was able to >> find is on the gentoo forums, but I am yet to succeed ... > > Don't pay attention to the forum thread title. As you must know, forums > are generally quite messy compared to mailing-lists, as people tend to > deviate from the original subject. > > I went through quite some of the posts and it's about running GNU/Linux > (mostly Ubuntu but not exclusively) on all 8th generation MacBookPro > models; I got the impression there was actually way more posts about the > 15" & 17" models in this thread since they have more issues (dual > graphics, etc.). > > It's a very long read but there's very interesting info scattered > around. > > PS: if you succeed with Debian you should add a Changelog/HOWTO to the > Debian wiki on http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple > > -- > mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA® Conference 2012 > Save $700 by Nov 18 > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users |
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From: mike d. <fl...@po...> - 2011-11-02 09:40:41
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Johannes Graumann said: > > There's a very long thread on Ubuntuforums about this, and many > > people have reported success (though it involves de-activating the > > ATI card and using the intel HD as far as I understood, *and* EFI > > booting to be able to do so) : > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1695746 > > Thanks for the link, yet I believe that's for 8,1 and there's plenty > of howtos regarding that around. The only one on 8,2 I was able to > find is on the gentoo forums, but I am yet to succeed ... Don't pay attention to the forum thread title. As you must know, forums are generally quite messy compared to mailing-lists, as people tend to deviate from the original subject. I went through quite some of the posts and it's about running GNU/Linux (mostly Ubuntu but not exclusively) on all 8th generation MacBookPro models; I got the impression there was actually way more posts about the 15" & 17" models in this thread since they have more issues (dual graphics, etc.). It's a very long read but there's very interesting info scattered around. PS: if you succeed with Debian you should add a Changelog/HOWTO to the Debian wiki on http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple -- mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> |
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From: mike d. <fl...@po...> - 2011-11-02 01:38:12
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Hey there, Johannes Graumann said: > b) a grub-efi (pure efi) install fails as grub is inable to read the > video rom of the Radeon Card and I was unable to get xorg started. There's a very long thread on Ubuntuforums about this, and many people have reported success (though it involves de-activating the ATI card and using the intel HD as far as I understood, *and* EFI booting to be able to do so) : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1695746 I'm very likely to get a MacBookPro8,2 in a few weeks myself, and I want to use Debian testing too. So it'd be great if you kept us (or at least me) posted about your progress, and in case of success, write a Debian specific HOWTO! Thanks in advance for sharing! -- mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> |
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From: Johannes G. <joh...@we...> - 2011-10-19 08:09:56
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Scott Shawcroft wrote: > I'm planning on getting next macbook pro. (I was tempted to get the > current gen but I can wait a bit.) > > I found this thread on the gentoo forums: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-891920-highlight-macbook+pro.html > > It may help. Marvellous resource! Thank you - will try to emulate! Joh > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Jerome BENOIT > <g62...@re...>wrote: > >> Good news: it can be done, even if some part are not yet supported. >> >> On 17/10/11 22:33, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm after the combination of the nice macbbok hardware with my favorite >> OS >> > (usually in its debian testing incarnation), so I purchased a recent >> macbook >> > pro, which turns out to be version 8.2. >> > >> > I am having a multi-week nightmare with this thing. >> > a) refit-based install lead (eventually) to a booting system with >> > video, >> yet >> > cdrom remained inaccessible. >> >> Have you tried refit with grup-pc ? >> >> > b) a grub-efi (pure efi) install fails as grub is inable to rerub-pcad >> the video >> > rom of the Radeon Card and I was unable to get xorg started. >> >> grub-efi is not yet mature enough to with play with. >> >> > >> > I'm very close to just run debian from within vmware running on OSX, >> > yet that really is my last resort. >> > >> > Did anyone get this to work and can give some pointers? >> > >> > Thanks, Joh >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains >> > a definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >> > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. >> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mactel-linux-users mailing list >> > Mac...@li... >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct >> _______________________________________________ >> Mactel-linux-users mailing list >> Mac...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users >> |
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From: Johannes G. <joh...@we...> - 2011-10-19 07:57:34
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Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Good news: it can be done, even if some part are not yet supported. > > On 17/10/11 22:33, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm after the combination of the nice macbbok hardware with my favorite >> OS (usually in its debian testing incarnation), so I purchased a recent >> macbook pro, which turns out to be version 8.2. >> >> I am having a multi-week nightmare with this thing. >> a) refit-based install lead (eventually) to a booting system with video, >> yet cdrom remained inaccessible. > > Have you tried refit with grup-pc ? Yes. My attempts with refit have been using grub-pc. >> b) a grub-efi (pure efi) install fails as grub is inable to rerub-pcad >> the video rom of the Radeon Card and I was unable to get xorg started. > > grub-efi is not yet mature enough to with play with. Grrr ... > >> >> I'm very close to just run debian from within vmware running on OSX, yet >> that really is my last resort. >> >> Did anyone get this to work and can give some pointers? >> >> Thanks, Joh >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct >> _______________________________________________ >> Mactel-linux-users mailing list >> Mac...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct |
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From: Scott S. <sco...@gm...> - 2011-10-18 22:35:27
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I'm planning on getting next macbook pro. (I was tempted to get the current gen but I can wait a bit.) I found this thread on the gentoo forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-891920-highlight-macbook+pro.html It may help. ~Scott On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Jerome BENOIT <g62...@re...>wrote: > Good news: it can be done, even if some part are not yet supported. > > On 17/10/11 22:33, Johannes Graumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm after the combination of the nice macbbok hardware with my favorite > OS > > (usually in its debian testing incarnation), so I purchased a recent > macbook > > pro, which turns out to be version 8.2. > > > > I am having a multi-week nightmare with this thing. > > a) refit-based install lead (eventually) to a booting system with video, > yet > > cdrom remained inaccessible. > > Have you tried refit with grup-pc ? > > > b) a grub-efi (pure efi) install fails as grub is inable to rerub-pcad > the video > > rom of the Radeon Card and I was unable to get xorg started. > > grub-efi is not yet mature enough to with play with. > > > > > I'm very close to just run debian from within vmware running on OSX, yet > > that really is my last resort. > > > > Did anyone get this to work and can give some pointers? > > > > Thanks, Joh > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > > _______________________________________________ > > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > > Mac...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > |
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From: Jerome B. <g62...@re...> - 2011-10-18 12:47:04
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Good news: it can be done, even if some part are not yet supported. On 17/10/11 22:33, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm after the combination of the nice macbbok hardware with my favorite OS > (usually in its debian testing incarnation), so I purchased a recent macbook > pro, which turns out to be version 8.2. > > I am having a multi-week nightmare with this thing. > a) refit-based install lead (eventually) to a booting system with video, yet > cdrom remained inaccessible. Have you tried refit with grup-pc ? > b) a grub-efi (pure efi) install fails as grub is inable to rerub-pcad the video > rom of the Radeon Card and I was unable to get xorg started. grub-efi is not yet mature enough to with play with. > > I'm very close to just run debian from within vmware running on OSX, yet > that really is my last resort. > > Did anyone get this to work and can give some pointers? > > Thanks, Joh > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users |
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From: Johannes G. <joh...@we...> - 2011-10-18 12:25:25
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Hi, I'm after the combination of the nice macbbok hardware with my favorite OS (usually in its debian testing incarnation), so I purchased a recent macbook pro, which turns out to be version 8.2. I am having a multi-week nightmare with this thing. a) refit-based install lead (eventually) to a booting system with video, yet cdrom remained inaccessible. b) a grub-efi (pure efi) install fails as grub is inable to read the video rom of the Radeon Card and I was unable to get xorg started. I'm very close to just run debian from within vmware running on OSX, yet that really is my last resort. Did anyone get this to work and can give some pointers? Thanks, Joh |
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From: Justin P. M. <jus...@gm...> - 2011-08-20 03:57:21
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On 08/19/2011 07:52 PM, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > My Mac2010 MacBook under Leopard had 4 partitions: > Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 26 204819+ ee GPT << EFI boot > chooser > /dev/sda2 * 26 9670 77463552 af HFS / HFS+ << MAC > /dev/sda3 9670 16044 51196928 83 Linux << Ubuntu > /dev/sda4 16044 19458 27423744 b W95 FAT32 << > common storage > > The installer-Lion upgrade failed, without useful details. > Eventually the problem proved to be that the upgrade wants to create a > small Recovery Partition, > while the GPT disk only supports 4 partitions. Thus one had to be first > sacrificed to run the upgrade. > > After saving data files, /etc/apt, & /etc/fstab , I deleted the Linux > partition with Gparted. The installer-Lion upgrade was then trouble > free, with the vfat Recovery Partition just behind the Mac partition > > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848 instructs how to transnd then to > reinstall Ubuntu, > with essentially the same final disk structure as above. Therefrom > under Ubuntu, this email is sent. > > Minor aside. > ========== === > The USB Recovery supported bootup when the Option key was > pressed. Also the EFI boot chooser recognized this USB. Here is the USB > info: > > $ mount /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdb1 on /media/Recovery HD type hfsplus > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) > > $ df /dev/sdb1 > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 634768 488112 146656 77% /media/Recovery HD > on a 2 Gig USB stick > > $ ls -lh /media/"Recovery HD" > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 2011-08-19 10:59 com.apple.recovery.boot > > $ ls -lh /media/"Recovery HD"/com.apple.recovery.boot > total 455M > -rw-r--r-- 1 root 80 1.9K 2011-06-30 02:55 BaseSystem.chunklist > -rw-r--r-- 1 root 80 431M 2011-06-30 02:47 BaseSystem.dmg > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 839K 2011-06-30 02:04 boot.efi > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 361 2011-08-19 10:59 com.apple.Boot.plist > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23M 2011-06-30 01:41 kernelcache > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2K 2011-06-15 21:06 PlatformSupport.plist > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 475 2011-06-29 23:42 SystemVersion.plist > > Another USB stick boot competent on PCs failed on the MAC, so the > hfsplus formatting is necessary. > Has anyone made a USB with Linux bootable on MACs? > > MarvS > my two iMac9,1's will boot via usb stick, but my MacBookPro2,2 will not. (simply creat usb bootable device within ubuntu etc..)seems something with the bios preventing the macbook from working(ieee1394 will work with osx but not linux) hope this helps. Justin P. Mattock |
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From: Marvin S. <mar...@gm...> - 2011-08-20 02:53:03
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My Mac2010 MacBook under Leopard had 4 partitions: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes ------------------------------------------------------------------ Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 26 204819+ ee GPT << EFI boot chooser /dev/sda2 * 26 9670 77463552 af HFS / HFS+ << MAC /dev/sda3 9670 16044 51196928 83 Linux << Ubuntu /dev/sda4 16044 19458 27423744 b W95 FAT32 << common storage The installer-Lion upgrade failed, without useful details. Eventually the problem proved to be that the upgrade wants to create a small Recovery Partition, while the GPT disk only supports 4 partitions. Thus one had to be first sacrificed to run the upgrade. After saving data files, /etc/apt, & /etc/fstab , I deleted the Linux partition with Gparted. The installer-Lion upgrade was then trouble free, with the vfat Recovery Partition just behind the Mac partition http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848 instructs how to transnd then to reinstall Ubuntu, with essentially the same final disk structure as above. Therefrom under Ubuntu, this email is sent. Minor aside. ========== === The USB Recovery supported bootup when the Option key was pressed. Also the EFI boot chooser recognized this USB. Here is the USB info: $ mount /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on /media/Recovery HD type hfsplus (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) $ df /dev/sdb1 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 634768 488112 146656 77% /media/Recovery HD on a 2 Gig USB stick $ ls -lh /media/"Recovery HD" total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 2011-08-19 10:59 com.apple.recovery.boot $ ls -lh /media/"Recovery HD"/com.apple.recovery.boot total 455M -rw-r--r-- 1 root 80 1.9K 2011-06-30 02:55 BaseSystem.chunklist -rw-r--r-- 1 root 80 431M 2011-06-30 02:47 BaseSystem.dmg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 839K 2011-06-30 02:04 boot.efi -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 361 2011-08-19 10:59 com.apple.Boot.plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23M 2011-06-30 01:41 kernelcache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2K 2011-06-15 21:06 PlatformSupport.plist -r--r--r-- 1 root root 475 2011-06-29 23:42 SystemVersion.plist Another USB stick boot competent on PCs failed on the MAC, so the hfsplus formatting is necessary. Has anyone made a USB with Linux bootable on MACs? MarvS |
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From: Sebastian T. <se...@sm...> - 2011-01-27 13:52:48
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Hi all, I got it working after a few days but I've been mega-busy since then. In the end I did it using a USB flash drive as a boot disk and installer disk all-in-one, i.e., I gave up on the external optical drive. I found that the trick was to put a GPT partition table on the USB drive. (I did this using Mac's Disk Utility, but I've no doubt it would work using parted). Then, once you've built grub2 and put it on the boot disk, rEFIt finds it and grub2 runs no problem. Apart from that, pretty much everything you need to know is documented here: http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook Hope this helps. Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap |
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From: Osamu A. <os...@de...> - 2011-01-10 14:35:34
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:33:06PM +0000, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an aluminium Macbook Pro (Jan 2008) with a broken internal optical > drive. I do not have such fancy tool ... But in general, have you tied network booting? That seems to be the least common denominator method of booting. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s05.html.en Osamu |
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From: Sebastian T. <se...@sm...> - 2011-01-10 07:05:54
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Quoth Justin Mattock <jus...@gm...>: > works on the iMac9,1over here(liveusb, or usb install) Can you remember how you prepared your USB drive? Which distro did/do you use? Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap |
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From: Sebastian T. <se...@sm...> - 2011-01-10 06:58:35
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Quoth Ricky Campbell: > Booting from USB is an issue. It has been for a long time. The problem > is related to the legacy bootloader used on the CD mixed with oddities > of the Mac EFI firmware. Understood. > I think it is possible if you create a grub-EFI USB drive and load the kernel > from the CD. I think this approach is definitely my best bet. Anyone done this, or someting like this? > There is a big thread on booting via EFI in ubuntuforums. Thanks for the tip. *Lots* of useful stuff there ^^^, although not in much order (as far as I can tell at first glance). Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap |
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From: Justin M. <jus...@gm...> - 2011-01-10 06:36:50
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On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 15:06:23 -0800, Justin Mattock wrote: > > [...] > >> works on the iMac9,1over here(liveusb, or usb install) but the >> macbookpro2,2 wont.. > > Maybe this was changed when Apple released MacBooks without internal > optical drives. In my case, it is an ancient Mac mini (pre-nvidia). > > Regards, > Tino > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of > any company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn > how to > best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information > secure > and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users probably.. from what I remember there is some error about the firmware not supporting legacy or something in that area.(iMac works fine) Justin P. Mattock |
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From: Tino K. <tin...@ti...> - 2011-01-10 06:14:56
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 15:06:23 -0800, Justin Mattock wrote: [...] > works on the iMac9,1over here(liveusb, or usb install) but the > macbookpro2,2 wont.. Maybe this was changed when Apple released MacBooks without internal optical drives. In my case, it is an ancient Mac mini (pre-nvidia). Regards, Tino |
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From: Sebastian T. <se...@sm...> - 2011-01-10 00:00:25
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Quoth Justin Mattock <jus...@gm...>: > works on the iMac9,1over here(liveusb, or usb install) but the > macbookpro2,2 wont.. Hmm... MacBook Pro 3,1 here. -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap |
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From: Sebastian T. <se...@sm...> - 2011-01-09 23:52:29
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Quoth Tino Keitel <tin...@ti...>: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 18:33:06 +0000, Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> I can boot from the Snow Leopard install DVD using the external optical drive > > I think you mean a USB drive. Maybe. I mean my external (USB) optical drive - also a SuperMulti drive. > AFAIK booting from USB media is not supported in the legacy BIOS emulation. > This is used if you try to boot from a DOS bootblock. You need an EFI boot > media to be able to boot from USB media. I'm playing around with grub.efi on a USB drive as we speak. I built it as described here: http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook rEFIt sees it no problem and the minimal grub shell actually works!!! :) When I type 'ls' I get the following: (hd0) (hd1) (hd1,gpt2) (hd1,gpt1) (cd0) (cd1) cd0 is the broken internal optical drive and cd1 is the external drive. I suppose hd0 is the EFI partition and hd1 the main 300GB (MacOSX) partition. No idea what to do next. When I type 'boot cd1' I get a message saying 'no loaded kernel'? Needless to say, I'm way out of my depth, but having fun nonetheless. Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap |
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From: Justin M. <jus...@gm...> - 2011-01-09 23:06:33
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On Jan 9, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 18:33:06 +0000, Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have an aluminium Macbook Pro (Jan 2008) with a broken internal >> optical >> drive. >> >> I can boot from the Snow Leopard install DVD using the external >> optical drive > > I think you mean a USB drive. > >> without any problem whatsoever but it simply will not boot from any >> of the >> GNU/Linux boot CDs I have at my disposal (Debian Squeeze, Debian >> Lenny, Ubuntu >> 9.0, I've even tried a GParted Live CD). >> >> The result is always the same - rEFIt identifies the CD as a GNU/ >> Linux boot CD, >> I select it, hit Enter, smile at Tux in the middle of my screen... >> but then >> everything goes black and I'm presented with the depressingly >> unhelpful error >> message "Missing operating system". >> >> I've synced the partition tables, the EFI firmware is as up-to-date >> as it can >> be, I've even tried a bootable USB flash drive or two - again rEFIt >> identifies >> the media correctly - but then... nada. >> >> Any advice/tips/pointers/suggestions very much appreciated. > > AFAIK booting from USB media is not supported in the legacy BIOS > emulation. This is used if you try to boot from a DOS bootblock. You > need an EFI boot media to be able to boot from USB media. > > Regards, > Tino > works on the iMac9,1over here(liveusb, or usb install) but the macbookpro2,2 wont.. Justin P. Mattock |
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From: Tino K. <tin...@ti...> - 2011-01-09 22:40:10
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 18:33:06 +0000, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an aluminium Macbook Pro (Jan 2008) with a broken internal optical > drive. > > I can boot from the Snow Leopard install DVD using the external optical drive I think you mean a USB drive. > without any problem whatsoever but it simply will not boot from any of the > GNU/Linux boot CDs I have at my disposal (Debian Squeeze, Debian Lenny, Ubuntu > 9.0, I've even tried a GParted Live CD). > > The result is always the same - rEFIt identifies the CD as a GNU/Linux boot CD, > I select it, hit Enter, smile at Tux in the middle of my screen... but then > everything goes black and I'm presented with the depressingly unhelpful error > message "Missing operating system". > > I've synced the partition tables, the EFI firmware is as up-to-date as it can > be, I've even tried a bootable USB flash drive or two - again rEFIt identifies > the media correctly - but then... nada. > > Any advice/tips/pointers/suggestions very much appreciated. AFAIK booting from USB media is not supported in the legacy BIOS emulation. This is used if you try to boot from a DOS bootblock. You need an EFI boot media to be able to boot from USB media. Regards, Tino |
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