Re: [Mactel-linux-users] booting 2.6.2[6-7] on a MacBook [was: Patches in 2.6.27]

[Justin M. <jus...@gm...>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Ludovic Rousseau
<lud...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:16 PM, mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> wrote:
>> Osamu Aoki a dit:
>>> I am too lazy to compile kernel but Debian distributed compiled kernel
>>> works now.
>>>
>>>   2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel packaged in
>>>   linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 package
>>
>> Unfortunately, it still doesn't work for me.
>>
>> I get a MMCONFIG message followed by an explicit Kernel Panic: unable to
>> mount root VFS blah.
>
> I also got such an error. It was because the BIOS could not load the
> initrd.img image. My linux partition is sda2 but it must be too big
> (50 GB) and the new files are now created outside range for the BIOS.
>
> Using lilo I got such an error message. Using grub the message was
> more explicit (but I do not remember the message error code).
>
> Try installing your vmlinuz and initrd.img file in a smaller
> partition. Or on a USB memory or a CD.
>
> Bye
>
> --
>  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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Something must be wrong with there .config,
or grub/ try grub2 using it over here, just grab it from debian
sid, not intrepid due to a bug with intrepid(keyboard freeze);

As for the disk, over here I'm using the entire disk.(120gig);
heres my partition map:

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       14223   114238281+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2          14223       14594     2982509   82  Linux swap / Solaris

As for mmconfig heres the thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/16/190
I just use direct or the any option in the kernel .config
you should be able to load the latest git with no problems.
regards;

-- 
Justin P. Mattock