From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1, 1: failed to resolve partition Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:37:41 -0400 Message-ID: <87ef1mf19b.fsf@netris.org> References: <1565734617.2324.20.camel@sbcglobal.net> <1565821926.5199.14.camel@gmail.com> <874l2igryn.fsf@netris.org> <1565906402.2236.33.camel@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44653) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyPKn-0003Cz-J8 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:39:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyPKj-0004DJ-4v for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:39:08 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43847) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyPKh-0004CG-0s for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:39:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyPKg-0008Un-TL for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:39:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1565906402.2236.33.camel@gmail.com> (Calvin Heim's message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:00:02 -0700") 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: Calvin Heim Cc: 37021@debbugs.gnu.org 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. >>=20 >> =C2=A0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnHRai14ETKU >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Mark > I have now removed the DVD and made a live USB with the guix-system-insta= ll-1.0.1.i686-linux.iso image. > Selecting the live usb at (what I believe to be) the EFI leads to the Gui= xSD LiveUSB image's GRUB, replete with the GUIXSD logo. > Setting the acpi=3Doff boot option in the GuixSD LiveUSB image's GRUB lea= ds to the same log that is=C2=A0 > pasted in my previous email, quoted above. =C2=A0When I saw the identifie= r 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 vide= o.=C2=A0=C2=A0He attempted 18.10 > but that resulted in a kernel panic.=C2=A0=C2=A0I also see a kernel panic= without setting acpi=3Doff > 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 excep= tion handler > Shutting down cpus with NMI > Kernel Offset : 0x8000000 from 0xc1000000 (relocation range: 0xc0000000-0= xf7dfdfff) > 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. 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