Julien BLACHE wrote:
Eugen Dedu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
If I understand correctly
http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#head-c01ca021c676fa6c705b7b67480d10fc689a050c
debian amd64 cannot be installed on a MacBookPro, but i386 (with or
without amd64 kernel). I would really love to use amd64 on it.
This wiki entry is utterly wrong and misleading.
You can install refit from refit.sf.net under OS X (and you'll need to
anyway because you need to bless the refit binary otherwise the PROM
won't boot it and still defaults to the OS X bootloader), do your
partitioning from there too (a bit tricky, be careful), and use the
gptsync feature from refit when you reboot (it's in the utilities
offered by the bootloader at boot time - it'll save your life
eventually).
Another option is to boot a livecd of some kind, do your partitioning
with parted, reboot, use gptsync from the refit menu at boot, boot the
installer -> you're done.
So, sure, it's not straightforward at the moment. Note that the
gptsync utility works on amd64 too - it doesn't depend on gnu-efi, so
you can build it *BUT* you'll need a small patch otherwise it'll
utterly fail. I've posted that patch in this bug, IIRC, otherwise I
can dig it up.
I don't know how well d-i copes with the machine, as I debootstraped
my laptop instead of using the installer.
Hi,
I have finally succeed to install debian amd64 with the steps given at
http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#head-c01ca021c676fa6c705b7b67480d10fc689a050c
The only problem was to cope with refit absence in amd64. (I did not
used a live CD, only the debian one.)
Thank you for your remarks and for your work.
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Eugen Dedu
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