[gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

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Hello there!

I've tried to install Gentoo on Macbook, but got stuck with GRUB.
Here is the topic: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6932124.html


Cheers!

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

[Keith Dart]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:48:38 +0300
"." <ivdwut@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've tried to install Gentoo on Macbook, but got stuck with GRUB.
> Here is the topic: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6932124.html

I've done it. Don't use grub. Use refit and elilo. At least that's
what I used, but it was a couple of years ago. 

http://refit.sourceforge.net/



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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

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> I've done it. Don't use grub. Use refit and elilo. At least that's
> what I used, but it was a couple of years ago.
I'm already using rEFIt to switch between Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.
Could you be more specific? What should I do to fix it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

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Hello!

> If you get a "No bootable device" error, select the partitioning tool from the rEFIt menu and update the MBR. This syncs the partition tables between the GPT and MBR loaders. [1]
It worked.

The only problem I have is that extra Tux in the rEFIt menu. How to
get rid of that?

[1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Apple_Macbook_Pro#Booting_Gentoo


Cheers!

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

[Fernando Freire]

I've installed other distributions of Linux before on a MacbookPro and
have found that installing GRUB to the boot record of sda is a Bad
Idea. Instead, try installing GRUB to the partition that Gentoo is
currently on (or wherever your /boot partition is mounted) such as
(hd0,3). Also, make sure that GRUB is compiled with support for the
filesystem that you desire to use; I know for a fact that you have to
have a particularly new version of GRUB to support EXT4 filesystems.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:18 AM, . <ivdwut@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've done it. Don't use grub. Use refit and elilo. At least that's
>> what I used, but it was a couple of years ago.
> I'm already using rEFIt to switch between Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.
> Could you be more specific? What should I do to fix it?
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

[James Broadhead]

I think that that last post might be a little misleading for a new
user, I'd just like to clarify it a little bit.

On 18 January 2012 15:23, Fernando Freire <freire14@up.edu> wrote:
> I've installed other distributions of Linux before on a MacbookPro and
> have found that installing GRUB to the boot record of sda is a Bad
> Idea.

I can't comment on this part ...

> Instead, try installing GRUB to the partition that Gentoo is
> currently on (or wherever your /boot partition is mounted) such as
> (hd0,3).

Installing grub (emerge grub), and installing it to the Boot Record
(MBR) of a drive are very different things.

Do you mean;
grub > root (hd0,0)
and NOT
grub > setup(hd0)  ?

This would require the Apple bootloader to allow chainloading into a
partition (and I have no clue if / how that is supported).

> Also, make sure that GRUB is compiled with support for the
> filesystem that you desire to use; I know for a fact that you have to
> have a particularly new version of GRUB to support EXT4
> filesystems.

grub is has supported ext4 since 2009 - it's kernel filesystem support
that's most people mess up.
Most gentoo users will still be using grub-0.99, which is years old.
-r10 went stable on amd64 in 2010-07.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

[Fernando Freire]

> On 18 January 2012 15:23, Fernando Freire <freire14@up.edu> wrote:
<snip>

> Installing grub (emerge grub), and installing it to the Boot Record
> (MBR) of a drive are very different things.
>
> Do you mean;
> grub > root (hd0,0)
> and NOT
> grub > setup(hd0)  ?

Hmm, I first installed grub from the repository and then did a
grub-install --no-floppy to (in my case) hd(0,3) which worked
perfectly fine with my 2008 MBP. Refit correctly identifies the Linux
partition and when it has done its thing it drops me into GRUB, and of
course from there into the operating system. Perhaps I'm using the
terminology wrong, sorry for the confusion!

<snip>

-FF-