Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Problem activating the BIOS emulation on the MacBook Pro

[Miguel F. <mig...@gm...>]

On 4/24/06, Nicholas Tang <nic...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> The process that worked for me was quite easy, in the end (there was a lo=
t
> of trial and error, but...):
>
> 1.) Boot into OS X and run Boot Camp to set up the box w/ BIOS emulation;
> when they prompt to insert the Windows install CD, just pop in the linux
> install CD.  You might be able to do this by blowing away the two partiti=
ons
> you mentioned, reinstalling OS X onto them, and then running Boot Camp.
> Boot Camp makes this process easy; without it, I'm not sure how doable th=
is
> is.
>

Just a side note, bootcamp only works with single partition drives, it
aborts otherwise.
using GPT partitions and a "fake replicated" partition table seems to
work only with fdisk and cfdisk, cfdisk fails to work with the fake
partition table.

> 2.) Format the disks, blowing away the existing partitions, as a normal
> linux box.  I used fdisk, since cfdisk choked on it - fdisk couldn't see =
the
> partitions, but it could blow them away if I remember correctly.  :)  Par=
ted
> also worked from what I recall.  Once the GPT partitions have been blown
> away, though, cfdisk will work fine.
>
> 3.) Do a manual install, building your own kernel (see above - 2.6.16 w/
> patches from the Mactel site), and installing LILO to the MBR on the syst=
em
> disk.  I used Gentoo, but any flavor that allows you to build your own
> kernels and manually configure things should work just fine.
>
> That was it, literally.
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On 4/24/06, Michael Kaufmann <mi...@en...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I still have all my problems but as far as I understand they are
> > solveable. Can someone please tell me how he/she did this?
> > First my preconditions:
> > * I have 6 paritions. I can delete 2 of them if neccessary but I cannot
> > reformat them because there is important data on it.
> > * I have no bios emulation enabled and I have only GPT parition tables.
> > * I have tried to install lilo on /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 but
> > without success. Grub deleted my parition table but I could restore it
> > (backup).
> > * I have no windows (even no windows cds)
> >
> > What I want is:
> > * Activate BIOS emulation. I think this should work by installing lilo
> > or "mbr" (see
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~neilt/mbr/) because if
> > they are on CD the BIOS emulation is activated. Have tried to install
> > grub on CD but without success (hang at "loading stagr 1.5" or so).
> > * Clone GPT partition table to a mbr partition table (I think I have to
> > delete 2 partitions for this).
> > * Use the closed source ati driver fglrx for hardware acceleration.
> >
> > Secondary goals:
> > * Get full keyboard support, get a correct keymap.
> > * Get a second mouse button by using mac_hid (in the kernel)
> >
> > Has someone got this working under my preconditions? I just cannot get
> > this working.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> >
> > Nicholas Tang wrote:
> > > Yep - already found it.  The problem is that I had been using 2.6.15
> > > and as far as I can tell, the network driver I needed wasn't
> > > introduced until 2.6.16.  :)  Once I upgraded it worked just fine.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Nicholas
> > >
> > > On 4/24/06, *Felix Gr=F6bert* < fe...@gr...
> > > <mailto:fe...@gr...>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >     Am 24.04.2006 um 01:09 schrieb Nicholas Tang:
> > >
> > >     > do you know which kernel mods you had to enable to get that to
> work?
> > >
> > >     this[1] config might help.
> > >
> > >         cheers, Felix
> > >
> > >     [1]
> http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mactel-linux/trunk/misc/
> > >     misc/config-2.6.16?view=3Dmarkup
> > >
> > >
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