Hello, I have been playing around with my 1GB USB key to install Debian on it so as to be able to boot my MBP in Linux. I was able to follow http://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel and Linux booted up fine on my MBP. BTW I installed rEFIt on the USB key rather than the hard disk as I didn't know what I was really doing and didn't want to hose the OSX installation.
So the kernel compiled from 2.6.16.1 (vanilla) and the corresponding packages from mactel-linux was able to boot and I got the bash prompt. I haven't been able to run Xorg yet, as it says "No device detected" when I try to start it. Then I found about the http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro page and thought that the patches for the MBP might provide me with something better. However, compiling the kernel as I did before and copying it over the USB disk didn't allow me to boot again. When I try the new 2.6.7.11 on the USB disk, it ends up with a kernel panic telling that it couldn't find/load the /dev/sdb3 partition. The /dev/sdb3 is the 880MB parition which I use as / and the /boot partition is the first primary partition on the USB disk which has the e.efi and elilo.conf and vmlinuz on it. Any help will be appreciated. If you need more info, please ask and I will post. thanks, ---- KD ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
