From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Calvin Heim Subject: bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1, 1: failed to resolve partition Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:25:46 -0700 Message-ID: <1565925946.2230.9.camel@gmail.com> References: <1565734617.2324.20.camel@sbcglobal.net> <1565821926.5199.14.camel@gmail.com> <874l2igryn.fsf@netris.org> <1565906402.2236.33.camel@gmail.com> <87ef1mf19b.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hySsN-0002DA-EM for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 23:26:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hySsM-0008Kx-0Y for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 23:26:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hySsL-0008Kr-RY for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 23:26:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hySsL-0001Pu-MX for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 23:26:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87ef1mf19b.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: 37021@debbugs.gnu.org On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 19:37 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Calvin, > > Calvin Heim writes: > > > > > On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 15:15 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > > > > > I did some looking around for any recently updated tutorials on how to > > > install GNU/Linux on a MacBook 1,1, and the only recent success story I > > > found involved installing the rEFInd boot manager and using it to boot > > > to a USB installer. > > > > > >   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRai14ETKU > > > > > > I would suggest something along those lines, since it would eliminate > > > the need to access the DVD drive from the initrd, which seems to be > > > where you're currently getting stuck. > > > > > >        Mark > > I have now removed the DVD and made a live USB with the guix-system-install-1.0.1.i686-linux.iso image. > > Selecting the live usb at (what I believe to be) the EFI leads to the GuixSD LiveUSB image's GRUB, replete with the GUIXSD logo. > > Setting the acpi=off boot option in the GuixSD LiveUSB image's GRUB leads to the same log that is  > > pasted in my previous email, quoted above.  When I saw the identifier for the DVD drive again in the log, > > I double-checked to make sure that my previous DVD was not in the drive. Nope, it's in a vinyl CD case. > > > > David Stumph (the author of the video) is using lubuntu 16.04 in the video.  He attempted 18.10 > > but that resulted in a kernel panic.  I also see a kernel panic without setting acpi=off > > in the grub boot options. In case someone in the future is searching for this issue, the kernel panic message is > > > > > > %----------begin pasted text----------------->% > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout: Not all CPUs entered broadcast exception handler > > Shutting down cpus with NMI > > Kernel Offset : 0x8000000 from 0xc1000000 (relocation range: 0xc0000000-0xf7dfdfff) > > Kernel rebooting in 30 seconds > > > > > > %----------end paste------------------------->% > Ubuntu 16.04 uses linux-4.4.  We have linux-libre-4.4 (LTS) in Guix, but > our 1.0.1 installer images are based on linux-libre-5.1. > > It might be worth using another machine to build a Guix installer image > that uses linux-libre-4.4, and trying that.   Is it important that it's another machine, and not this machine (Macbook1,1)? This machine has Trisquel 8 currently running and functional. I am confident that I can reinstall the Guix package manager on it to build the suggested custom installation image. > Here's how: Section 3.9 > (Building the Installation Image) describes how to build an installer > image, but instead of passing "gnu/system/install.scm", pass the name of > a modified version of that file, with (kernel linux-libre-4.4) added as > an additional field to 'installation-os'. > >        Mark