Gentoo on a Macbook?

rzr · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:

marvellous: try to unselect the "Apple USB Touchpad" in kernel config, so it will use the usbhid device. the touchpad driver failed on my configuration too, well.... it work, but really really unresponsive.

dmvianna: two linux startup options ?? would you describe your partition and lilo configuration ?

dmvianna · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject:

I'm in OSX now, so...

rzr · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

i remember there was 1024 cylinder limit on lilo, so we need "lba32" option if we want to boot from third partition like that. try to add that option.

and while i'm not really sure how important is this, change also your "default" option. it's different than the real label. i can't find any writing whether lilo is case sensitive or not.

marvellous · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

@rzr thanks for your help, but "Apple USB Touchpad" is already unselect.
when i select it and compile the kernel again, there are the same problems

can someone post his kernel-config please?

i have also problems whith booting the kernel with the config from mactel-linux.org.
sometimes i get the following kernel panic message:

MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Kernel panic: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work

after one or two reboots the kernel seems to be ok...

dmvianna · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject:

I gave up lilo entirely, as I'm not booting MS anyway. I've compiled elilo, put elilo.efi it in an unjournalled HFS+ partition, along with the kernel and a elilo.conf. Although I've fiddled so much with it before realising it had to be a HFS+ partition, I am now in need of an elilo.conf example so I could make it work. Well, at least in that way I was able to go a step further: this time it is elilo which hangs up, not rEFIt, which runs properly (although still giving me two boot options for each bootable linux drive).

I must say that I've compiled elilo from their homepage source tarball, not through portage. It was easier than including a x86 keyword in the relevant ebuilds. Should we file a bug for that at some point, so the ebuild states the x86 keyword?

My present elilo.conf (laughing is tolerated):

rzr · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:54 am Post subject:

marvellous: this is my kernel config and xorg.conf , maybe you could use it as comparison.

just don't use it as is, beware that i'm not even include ext2 fs support, and it may be dangerous for your configuration.

dmvianna: even when i want to laugh, i can't because i know nothing about elilo

so.. can't give comment here.

but i can comment about the keywording. you don't need to include x86 keyword in the relevant ebuild (well... actually it's a "don't even do that"), you could use /etc/portage/package.keywords for this kind of moment.
echo "sys-boot/elilo ia64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

and we do need lilo/grub even we're not booting MS, because the kernel need to take information from bios (actually bootcamp here) about the vga. and we can't get direct rendering on X without that information.

last, while the cause is still unknown, actually there is no one ever succeed booting macbooks with elilo. see the last part on http://desrt.mcmaster.ca/macbook.xhtml.

marvellous · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

after compiling the new 2.6.17-r1 kernel with a new config-file, which i editet manually, the kernel boots correctly and the trackpad works without any problems

thanks a lot

vanten · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 44 Location: Sweden

Sorry if this is a silly question, or if the answer, allready heve been tolden. Just point at the direction then

I have manage to make 2 etx2 partitions on my macbook now with parted.
/dev/sda4 (for swap 1gb)
/dev/sda5

fdisk can only see one of those, or both as one unit.

My problem is that i cant mount /dev/sda5 with my gentoo 2006 livecd.
So how did you make that possible?
I don't want to format my hdd, since I have no backup space available.

If it wasn't enought, I cant mount my hfsplus partitions. I got some usefull things to complement my installation process. And im to stingy to burn 4 mb on a cd.

Any thoughts or something that could help me?
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dmvianna · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject:

rzr:
Thanks for the info about elilo not working on MacBooks. I see I was on the wrong track. Yes, my elilo did hang in the middle of the kernel booting process.

rzr · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:23 am Post subject:

vanten : that's not a silly question, only a sign that you don't read the howto thoroughly..

. a combination of GPT and MBR partitions will inherit both limitation, make you can't create more than 4 partitions. that's why every howtos out there tell you to use swap file.

dmvianna: i have succeeded booting with grub, and there is grub section on the howto.

bootcamp is firmware update which is still on beta version, it's not included on the official version yet. so, yes... you need it if you want to do booting with MBR.

dmvianna · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

vanten · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 44 Location: Sweden

justwantstohelp · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:06 am Post subject:

What's the status of sleep? I'm getting my macbook 1.83 in a few days, and I was wondering if anyone has tried suspend2 as I hear that swsusp doesn't work. What about uswsusp (>=2.6.17)?

dmvianna · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

dmvianna · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject:

OK, FINALLY lilo boots after the firmware update. How was I to know 'early 2006' means today? Damn, that's so vague. I still am having kernel panic for it seems not to be able to mount the root partition, but that will have to be solved later. Hey rzr, I'm using your kernel config just for being lazy, but even after including ext2 and ext3 support the root can't be mounted. Do you remember something on it which may be contributed to it not working, or maybe it's just because I did not ever use bootcamp? I don't want to wipe out my Gentoo installation to make bootcamp happy if I can avoid it.
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rzr · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:23 am Post subject:

hmm...strange. no, there should not be anything like that. beside fs, another bad thing from it is i forgot to turn on module autoload, but that will only bring to inconvinience, and not kernel panic. so is your newly installed bootcamp, kernel loading should not be affected by it.

can't think any of the reason, i suppose you will only need to reinspect your kernel configuration...

[edit] wait... i also saw kernel panic twice, and can't find the reason. i think it's dealing with bootcamp still being beta. please also notice that mine is macbook (not a pro one), eventough the difference should not be too significant, it still different.

justwantstohelp: haven't played with sleep myself, but i heard sleep will not work out of the box. there is already a patch for it though, and ubuntu already include it on their kernel update. => http://desrt.mcmaster.ca/macbook.xhtml

jhgz1 · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:24 am Post subject:

dmvianna · Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:56 am Post subject:

OK, I did wipe all new partitions except the OSX primary one. But I still have /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4, it seems parted is unable to delete them. diskutil won't remove them either, and Bootcamp will refuse to install in a HD with more than one partition. Does anyone has any idea on how to delete those partitions both in EFI and MBR without buying proprietary software? :evil:

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vanten · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 44 Location: Sweden

dmvianna · Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:51 am Post subject:

rzr · Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

well.. you don't need to start bootcamp assistant. it's only needed for them who want to install windows. wee only need the firmware part of bootcamp to do dualbooting with linux.

dmvianna · Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

dmvianna · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject:

OK, now I have two clean partitions, OS X and Gentoo. Nice. But still I have the kernel panic. I realised :oops:

that this means I did not compile the right drivers for my HD device. It's too late and I have already spend a lot of time on it, so tomorrow or when I have time I'll probably set up genkernel for the first time in my Gentoo life. Ah, configurating the first kernel in a new machine is a tough task...
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Lokheed · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject:

Check this out guys. Release of gnome-power-manager 2.15.4:

dmvianna · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:55 am Post subject:

Has anyone succeeded in dual booting the same user? Meaning, having you main user's permissions in the OS X partition recognised seamlessly by Gentoo? How would one make it possible?
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