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

[mike d. <fl...@po...>]

I finally managed to boot a recent kernel on my MacBook2,1 (before that,
I was stuck with 2.6.25.14 for ages).

My problem happened to be lilo itself. The "large-memory" option did not
help, and it was not until I replaced lilo with grub2 (using the
'grub-pc' Debian package) that I could boot something fresh (2.6.30).

Though the thread is pretty old, I thought I'd share the enthusiasm, and
mark the issue as closed.

Ludovic Rousseau a dit:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:06 PM, 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).
> 
> My problem was a bug in LILO. The kernel + initrd image for Linux >=
> 2.6.26 was too large. Adding the option "large-memory" in
> /etc/lilo.conf solved the problem.
> See Debian bug #479607 for example. The option "large-memory" is now
> set by default in new Debian lenny installations.
> 
> > Try installing your vmlinuz and initrd.img file in a smaller
> > partition. Or on a USB memory or a CD.
> 
> I could not make grub2 from an USB memory stick to work. The boot
> partition on the USB memory is seen by rEFIt but it looks like the
> firmware can't load it.
> 
> Bye

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mike dentifrice <fl...@po...>