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From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2010-04-13 14:57:12
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Geoffrey wrote: > Anyone out there running 64 bit OS on a macbook pro 4,1. I upgraded > from 32 bit Red Hat EL 5.4 to 64 bit RHEL 5.4, then again to 64 bit RHEL > 5.5, which is actually still in beta. I don't know if I lost the core > in the 64 bit 5.4 or not. I see the following from dmesg: > > SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs > . > . > SMP alternatives: switching to UP code > . > . > SMP motherboard not detected. > . > . > SMP disabled Thought I'd update the list with a recent success: For whatever reason, I could not get the initial installation RHEL 5.4 disk to even boot until I stumbled across a link that suggested the following boot parms: acpi=force noapic irqpoll I don't know why they worked, but they did. Once installed, I found that I had to add them to my grub.conf to get the install to boot, but all was happy. After moving to 64bit, I lost one core of my two core processor. After much discussion with RH, I revisited these parameters and found that by removing the noapic, parm, my macbook would still boot and I got both cores. The weird thing is, I've tried every combination of these parms before in order to remove them from my boot process in the past, but my macbook would not boot. There must be something about the latest RHEL 5.5 kernel that resolved that issue. The weird thing is, I did not have this issue on 32bit RHEL 5.4. That is, I had both cores using all these parms. -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson |
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From: cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...> - 2010-04-12 00:17:47
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I have seen very, very few reports of it working (and those that did was older Intel machines). you can boot from USB with grub-efi (and elilo I'd imagine). On Apr 11, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 23:02:55 +0000, Massimo Di Stefano wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> i'm on a MBP 2,2 running osx snow leopard + Linux "Sidux" (xfce 64bit)i have refit installed on my disk so at boot time i have a nice gui to select from which partition i want to boot, i have plugged an usb disk (on it i have a working linux with grub installed on) >> >> unlucky i-m not able to learn how to boot linux from an external drive. >> please, can you help me ? > > AFAIK you can not boot from USB using a legacy DOS bootblock (like the > one installed by grub-pc, lilo etc.) on an Intel Mac. > > Regards, > Tino > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users |
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From: Tino K. <tin...@ti...> - 2010-04-11 23:30:59
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 23:02:55 +0000, Massimo Di Stefano wrote: > > Hi All, > i'm on a MBP 2,2 running osx snow leopard + Linux "Sidux" (xfce 64bit)i have refit installed on my disk so at boot time i have a nice gui to select from which partition i want to boot, i have plugged an usb disk (on it i have a working linux with grub installed on) > > unlucky i-m not able to learn how to boot linux from an external drive. > please, can you help me ? AFAIK you can not boot from USB using a legacy DOS bootblock (like the one installed by grub-pc, lilo etc.) on an Intel Mac. Regards, Tino |
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From: Sven A. <an...@an...> - 2010-04-11 09:06:41
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Massimo Di Stefano schrieb:
>
> Hi All,
>
> i'm on a MBP 2,2 running osx snow leopard + Linux "Sidux" (xfce 64bit)
> i have refit installed on my disk so at boot time i have a nice gui to
> select from which partition i want to boot, i have plugged an usb disk
> (on it i have a working linux with grub installed on)
>
> unlucky i-m not able to learn how to boot linux from an external drive.
> please, can you help me ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Massimo.
>
>
I think the only possibly way too boot linux from an external drive is
installing Linux on a Firewire HD. Maybe newer Macs can boot from
USB too, but for MBP2,2 this should be the only possible way.
Anybody correct me, if I'm wrong here...
Maybe you can configure GRUB (on the harddisk) to boot another Linux
system from an external USB HD. But I haven't tried this...
Regards
Sven
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From: Massimo Di S. <mas...@ya...> - 2010-04-10 23:03:04
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Hi All,
i'm on a MBP 2,2 running osx snow leopard + Linux "Sidux" (xfce 64bit)i have refit installed on my disk so at boot time i have a nice gui to select from which partition i want to boot, i have plugged an usb disk (on it i have a working linux with grub installed on)
unlucky i-m not able to learn how to boot linux from an external drive.
please, can you help me ?
thanks,
Massimo.
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From: Tino K. <tin...@ti...> - 2010-03-25 20:48:51
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 19:13:15 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: [...] > Thanks. I already looked over the page, but missed the important bit. > Now I can start the kernel, and get video output. However, I get a > panic when the root partition should be mounted, because the SATA disk > is not detected. At least there are no messages regarding sda. The > DVD drive is detected, though. > > Any further hints are appreciated. To answer myself: when booting with EFI, CONFIG_SATA_AHCI needs to be enabled in the kernel. CONFIG_ATA_PIIX doesn't work. Now I can boot my Linux using grub-efi. Everything seems to work, including X. Regards, Tino |
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From: Tino K. <tin...@ti...> - 2010-03-25 18:13:31
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:54:25 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] > [ Looks like people are too busy explaining why you shouldn't use > grub-efi to actually answer your question. ] Yeah, strange. > The problem may simply be that the `intel' Xorg driver relies on the > BIOS of your video card, which is usually initialized by the legacy BIOS > but is not initialized by the normal EFI boot. As the graphics is now handled by the kernel if KMS is used, this dependency moved from the Xorg driver to the kernel, too. > Checkout http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook where they provide some > steps that may be helpful to fix your problem (e.g. how to tell EFI to > initialize the video BIOS). Thanks. I already looked over the page, but missed the important bit. Now I can start the kernel, and get video output. However, I get a panic when the root partition should be mounted, because the SATA disk is not detected. At least there are no messages regarding sda. The DVD drive is detected, though. Any further hints are appreciated. Regards, Tino |
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From: Stefan M. <mo...@ir...> - 2010-03-25 13:54:55
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> I tried to use grub-efi on my Mac mini Core 2 Duo (Macmini2,1). I can
> get the kernel to start, but then the screen gets garbled and nothing
> happens. I use a pretty standard 2.6.33 kernel with kernel mode setting
> enabled. Grub2 is version 1.98.
> Here is my grub.cfg file:
> timeout=10
> set F1=ctrl-x
> menuentry "GNU/Linux" {
> search --set -f /boot/default-kernel
> linux /boot/default-kernel root=/dev/sda3 ro gpt i915.modeset=1
> }
> Does anyone have a working setup using grub-efi on similar hardware?
[ Looks like people are too busy explaining why you shouldn't use
grub-efi to actually answer your question. ]
The problem may simply be that the `intel' Xorg driver relies on the
BIOS of your video card, which is usually initialized by the legacy BIOS
but is not initialized by the normal EFI boot.
Checkout http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook where they provide some
steps that may be helpful to fix your problem (e.g. how to tell EFI to
initialize the video BIOS).
Stefan
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From: Tino K. <tin...@ti...> - 2010-03-21 22:42:07
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 20:11:08 +1100, Andy Botting wrote: > > I meant that messing around with MS-DOS partitions and the pretty long > > delay for legacy boot. > > This annoyed me too on my Mac Mini, until I found this: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5166788&postcount=21 > > Quote: > > How to single boot Linux without delay on Mac > --------------------------------------------------------- > > 1. If you have OSX installed, boot to it and mute sound. This assures > that you won't be annoyed by the startup/poweron sound afterwards. I > even used This software to be absolutely sure. > Restart to confirm that no startup sound is audible. > > 2. Prepare rEFIt boot disk (CD-RW). > > 3. Boot Ubuntu install and remove all partitions, partition as you > like for your Linux installation. Install Ubuntu, restart. > > 4. Put in rEFIt CD and holding down alt key, boot rEFIT cd. > Synchronize GUID and MBR. Restart. > > 5. Insert OSX disc, boot from it, open terminal and enter following: > bless --device /dev/disk0s2 --setBoot --legacy --verbose > where /dev/disk0s2 is the partition you installed grub (do 'diskutil > list' to find out correct partition). Of course, '--verbose' is > optional. > > This makes Macbook EFI firmware boot your Linux installation in legacy > mode without long delay (20s vs 3s). > > 6. Restart your Macbook (don't forget to remove OSX disc). And boot > directly to Linux! > > > Hope this helps :) Not really, as I want to keep the OS X installation. Furthermore, gptsync was causing trouble the last time I used it. The 4th partition with my LVM was gone after this, because gptsync inserted a dummy partition before the EFI partition. I had to use fdisk to recover it. So gptsync is marked as "unreliable" for me, which is another reason why I want to switch from grub-pc to grub-efi. Regards, Tino |
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From: Ivan S. <iv...@al...> - 2010-03-19 16:29:53
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Andy Botting wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Ivan,
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<pre wrap=""> I have been using the appletouch driver for more than a year now,
currently on linux 2.6.30. I noticed some time ago when trying to draw
something on gimp, that when you move your finger the cursor response is
not linear, but instead kind of "saw-tooth wave" shaped, across both X
and Y. Of course it is more noticeable if your 'sensitivity' setting on
X is high, but it is always there. Just to be clear, when you try to
draw a diagonal line, for example a 45 deg line, you end up with a
zig-zag shape, no matter how straight you slide your finger.
I did not know anything about how the trackpad works until now, and I
am not completely sure, but the number of 'jumps' of the response
pattern seems to match the number of sensor elements for both X and Y,
10x20 in my case (05ac:021b Apple, Inc Internal Keyboard/Trackpad).
I tried on O$X it seems to work fine. I believe that there is
something in the algorithm, perhaps in the atp_calculate_abs function,
that is not totally correct, at least for this trackpad type.
Any suggestions or comments are welcome.
Regards
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<pre wrap="">Hi, no comments on this? I poked the source code without positive results.
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I've noticed the zig-zag on my MacBook Pro also, and it's really
starting to irritate me.
Have you had any luck identifying or fixing the problem?
If not, I've found the authors of the appletouch driver, and it might
be worth dropping them a line to see if they've noticed the same
problem.
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I agree.<br>
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Hi, I've poking the source code and more or less figured how it works,
but I'm not sure on how to implement a fix. If you have any news let me
know. I'm copying to the list, I hope you don't mind.<br>
cheers<br>
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From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2010-03-19 16:12:11
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Justin P. mattock wrote: > On 03/19/2010 07:35 AM, Geoffrey wrote: >> Justin P. mattock wrote: >>> On 03/19/2010 04:29 AM, Geoffrey wrote: >>>> Ryan Schlesinger wrote: >>>>> I'm personally running Fedora 12 on mine. Have you tried installing a >>>>> newer kernel on 5.4? >>>> >>>> Yes. Not only that, I even upgraded to the 5.5 beta, still no go. As >>>> you might expect, Centos 5 does the same thing. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 03/18/2010 12:54 PM, Geoffrey wrote: >>>>>> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop 5.4, 64 bit on my >>>>>> macbook >>>>>> pro 4,1. >>>>>> >>>>>> It only uses one of the two cpu cores. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've booted to a mandriva 64 bit rescue disk and it shows two cores. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyone else running RHEL desktop 5.4? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> odd, and in the .config there's CONFIG_SMP=y >>> >>> Justin P. Mattock >> >> It's apparently something to do with not recognizing the motherboard as >> supporting smp, which makes no sense, because 32 bit did. From boot: >> >> Mar 19 06:51:01 mac kernel: SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs >> Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP alternatives: switching to UP code >> Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP motherboard not detected. >> Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP disabled >> >> > > > hmm.. I've a macbook2,2 maybe I should load the livecd > and see. > > I'm assuming mac kernel is something redhat creates! > you might want to try a vanilla kernel with a different .config > (if you need mine let me know). That really takes me back to where I want to be anyway. Drop me your config, that would be great, but recall, I had problems getting it to boot. I've give it a go again though. > > as for the message is this way up the line and/or towards the bottom > after udev is started? The messages above were not all together, but spread across /var/logs/messages, I grepped for SMP to get that info. Looking at /var/log/messages, I see no reference to udev at all. Although 'ps' shows: root 491 0.0 0.0 13032 1212 ? S<s 06:50 0:00 /sbin/udevd -d > > > Justin P. Mattock > -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson |
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From: Sam N. <sa...@th...> - 2010-03-19 16:03:14
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On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 20:11 +1100, Andy Botting wrote: > 5. Insert OSX disc, boot from it, open terminal and enter following: > bless --device /dev/disk0s2 --setBoot --legacy --verbose > where /dev/disk0s2 is the partition you installed grub (do 'diskutil > list' to find out correct partition). Of course, '--verbose' is > optional. Whoa! way back in 2007-2008 I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a way that I could run bless without installing OSX. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1202414009.5266.38.camel@isaac.localdomain&forum_name=mactel-linux-users Does this really work knoppix style like that? Will it work with my circa 2007 OSX disc? -- GPG key F343E5FC (fingerprint:DF37 93BC AFEC 0A6A CC08 4A95 3790 8B4C F343 E5FC) available at: http://www.thepromisedlan.org/sam_noble.gpg.asc |
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From: Justin P. m. <jus...@gm...> - 2010-03-19 15:55:28
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On 03/19/2010 07:35 AM, Geoffrey wrote: > Justin P. mattock wrote: >> On 03/19/2010 04:29 AM, Geoffrey wrote: >>> Ryan Schlesinger wrote: >>>> I'm personally running Fedora 12 on mine. Have you tried installing a >>>> newer kernel on 5.4? >>> >>> Yes. Not only that, I even upgraded to the 5.5 beta, still no go. As >>> you might expect, Centos 5 does the same thing. >>> >>>> >>>> On 03/18/2010 12:54 PM, Geoffrey wrote: >>>>> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop 5.4, 64 bit on my macbook >>>>> pro 4,1. >>>>> >>>>> It only uses one of the two cpu cores. >>>>> >>>>> I've booted to a mandriva 64 bit rescue disk and it shows two cores. >>>>> >>>>> Anyone else running RHEL desktop 5.4? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> odd, and in the .config there's CONFIG_SMP=y >> >> Justin P. Mattock > > It's apparently something to do with not recognizing the motherboard as > supporting smp, which makes no sense, because 32 bit did. From boot: > > Mar 19 06:51:01 mac kernel: SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs > Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP alternatives: switching to UP code > Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP motherboard not detected. > Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP disabled > > hmm.. I've a macbook2,2 maybe I should load the livecd and see. I'm assuming mac kernel is something redhat creates! you might want to try a vanilla kernel with a different .config (if you need mine let me know). as for the message is this way up the line and/or towards the bottom after udev is started? Justin P. Mattock |
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From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2010-03-19 14:35:51
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Justin P. mattock wrote: > On 03/19/2010 04:29 AM, Geoffrey wrote: >> Ryan Schlesinger wrote: >>> I'm personally running Fedora 12 on mine. Have you tried installing a >>> newer kernel on 5.4? >> >> Yes. Not only that, I even upgraded to the 5.5 beta, still no go. As >> you might expect, Centos 5 does the same thing. >> >>> >>> On 03/18/2010 12:54 PM, Geoffrey wrote: >>>> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop 5.4, 64 bit on my macbook >>>> pro 4,1. >>>> >>>> It only uses one of the two cpu cores. >>>> >>>> I've booted to a mandriva 64 bit rescue disk and it shows two cores. >>>> >>>> Anyone else running RHEL desktop 5.4? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> > > odd, and in the .config there's CONFIG_SMP=y > > Justin P. Mattock It's apparently something to do with not recognizing the motherboard as supporting smp, which makes no sense, because 32 bit did. From boot: Mar 19 06:51:01 mac kernel: SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP motherboard not detected. Mar 19 06:51:02 mac kernel: SMP disabled -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson |
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From: Justin P. m. <jus...@gm...> - 2010-03-19 13:34:00
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On 03/19/2010 02:11 AM, Andy Botting wrote: >> I meant that messing around with MS-DOS partitions and the pretty long >> delay for legacy boot. > > This annoyed me too on my Mac Mini, until I found this: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5166788&postcount=21 > > Quote: > > How to single boot Linux without delay on Mac > --------------------------------------------------------- > > 1. If you have OSX installed, boot to it and mute sound. This assures > that you won't be annoyed by the startup/poweron sound afterwards. I > even used This software to be absolutely sure. > Restart to confirm that no startup sound is audible. > > 2. Prepare rEFIt boot disk (CD-RW). > > 3. Boot Ubuntu install and remove all partitions, partition as you > like for your Linux installation. Install Ubuntu, restart. > > 4. Put in rEFIt CD and holding down alt key, boot rEFIT cd. > Synchronize GUID and MBR. Restart. > > 5. Insert OSX disc, boot from it, open terminal and enter following: > bless --device /dev/disk0s2 --setBoot --legacy --verbose > where /dev/disk0s2 is the partition you installed grub (do 'diskutil > list' to find out correct partition). Of course, '--verbose' is > optional. > > This makes Macbook EFI firmware boot your Linux installation in legacy > mode without long delay (20s vs 3s). > > 6. Restart your Macbook (don't forget to remove OSX disc). And boot > directly to Linux! > > > Hope this helps :) > > nice!! I do see a delay, but am not bothered by it. Justin P. Mattock |
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From: Justin P. m. <jus...@gm...> - 2010-03-19 13:25:23
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On 03/19/2010 04:29 AM, Geoffrey wrote: > Ryan Schlesinger wrote: >> I'm personally running Fedora 12 on mine. Have you tried installing a >> newer kernel on 5.4? > > Yes. Not only that, I even upgraded to the 5.5 beta, still no go. As > you might expect, Centos 5 does the same thing. > >> >> On 03/18/2010 12:54 PM, Geoffrey wrote: >>> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop 5.4, 64 bit on my macbook >>> pro 4,1. >>> >>> It only uses one of the two cpu cores. >>> >>> I've booted to a mandriva 64 bit rescue disk and it shows two cores. >>> >>> Anyone else running RHEL desktop 5.4? >>> >>> >> >> >> odd, and in the .config there's CONFIG_SMP=y Justin P. Mattock |
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From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2010-03-19 11:30:00
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Ryan Schlesinger wrote: > I'm personally running Fedora 12 on mine. Have you tried installing a > newer kernel on 5.4? Yes. Not only that, I even upgraded to the 5.5 beta, still no go. As you might expect, Centos 5 does the same thing. > > On 03/18/2010 12:54 PM, Geoffrey wrote: >> I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop 5.4, 64 bit on my macbook >> pro 4,1. >> >> It only uses one of the two cpu cores. >> >> I've booted to a mandriva 64 bit rescue disk and it shows two cores. >> >> Anyone else running RHEL desktop 5.4? >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson |
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From: Andy B. <an...@an...> - 2010-03-19 09:40:28
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> I meant that messing around with MS-DOS partitions and the pretty long > delay for legacy boot. This annoyed me too on my Mac Mini, until I found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5166788&postcount=21 Quote: How to single boot Linux without delay on Mac --------------------------------------------------------- 1. If you have OSX installed, boot to it and mute sound. This assures that you won't be annoyed by the startup/poweron sound afterwards. I even used This software to be absolutely sure. Restart to confirm that no startup sound is audible. 2. Prepare rEFIt boot disk (CD-RW). 3. Boot Ubuntu install and remove all partitions, partition as you like for your Linux installation. Install Ubuntu, restart. 4. Put in rEFIt CD and holding down alt key, boot rEFIT cd. Synchronize GUID and MBR. Restart. 5. Insert OSX disc, boot from it, open terminal and enter following: bless --device /dev/disk0s2 --setBoot --legacy --verbose where /dev/disk0s2 is the partition you installed grub (do 'diskutil list' to find out correct partition). Of course, '--verbose' is optional. This makes Macbook EFI firmware boot your Linux installation in legacy mode without long delay (20s vs 3s). 6. Restart your Macbook (don't forget to remove OSX disc). And boot directly to Linux! Hope this helps :) |
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From: Ryan S. <ry...@ry...> - 2010-03-18 23:24:26
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I'm personally running Fedora 12 on mine. Have you tried installing a newer kernel on 5.4? On 03/18/2010 12:54 PM, Geoffrey wrote: > I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop 5.4, 64 bit on my macbook > pro 4,1. > > It only uses one of the two cpu cores. > > I've booted to a mandriva 64 bit rescue disk and it shows two cores. > > Anyone else running RHEL desktop 5.4? > > |
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From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2010-03-18 19:54:53
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I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop 5.4, 64 bit on my macbook pro 4,1. It only uses one of the two cpu cores. I've booted to a mandriva 64 bit rescue disk and it shows two cores. Anyone else running RHEL desktop 5.4? -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson |
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From: cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...> - 2010-03-17 22:32:04
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Delay ? I've never had a delay. Ricky On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Tino Keitel <tin...@ti... > wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 14:13:48 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > > [...] > >> refit is nice, this way you don't have to press option(legacy) >> every boot. > > I meant that messing around with MS-DOS partitions and the pretty long > delay for legacy boot. > > Regards, > Tino > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users |
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From: Tino K. <tin...@ti...> - 2010-03-17 21:53:01
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 14:13:48 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: [...] > refit is nice, this way you don't have to press option(legacy) every boot. I meant that messing around with MS-DOS partitions and the pretty long delay for legacy boot. Regards, Tino |
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From: Justin P. M. <jus...@gm...> - 2010-03-17 21:14:00
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On 03/17/2010 01:56 PM, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:51:05 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > > [...] > >> I never liked the whole grub-efi thing. > > I never liked the whole legacy boot thing... :-) > > Regards, > Tino > > refit is nice, this way you don't have to press option(legacy) every boot. Justin P. Mattock |
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From: Tino K. <tin...@ti...> - 2010-03-17 20:57:11
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:51:05 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: [...] > I never liked the whole grub-efi thing. I never liked the whole legacy boot thing... :-) Regards, Tino |
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From: Justin P. M. <jus...@gm...> - 2010-03-17 20:51:17
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On 03/17/2010 01:28 PM, Tino Keitel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use grub-efi on my Mac mini Core 2 Duo (Macmini2,1). I can
> get the kernel to start, but then the screen gets garbled and nothing
> happens. I use a pretty standard 2.6.33 kernel with kernel mode setting
> enabled. Grub2 is version 1.98.
>
> Here is my grub.cfg file:
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> timeout=10
> set F1=ctrl-x
>
> menuentry "GNU/Linux" {
> search --set -f /boot/default-kernel
> linux /boot/default-kernel root=/dev/sda3 ro gpt i915.modeset=1
> }
>
> Does anyone have a working setup using grub-efi on similar hardware?
>
> Regards,
> Tino
>
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I never liked the whole grub-efi thing.
grub2 is o.k. but for some reason I always would see
a messed up screen on boot(from time to time).
lilo is the best from over here(easier to build, and use).
Justin P. Mattock
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