On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 15:15 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Calvin Heim <frofro...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Apologies for the formatting errors in the previous email. Hopefully this > > message is cleaner. > > > > GRUB loads. edit: this grub shows the GuixSD logo in the background. > > > > I add acpi=off to the boot options and boot. Otherwise, the screen goes > > black > > with a '-' symbol at the top left corner and freezes. > > > > So, after booting with acpi=off, the display shows the following lines > > (with timestamps on the > > left, but I had to manually transcribe so I left them off): > > > > %<---------------begin pasted text----------------------- > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.7 > > setup! > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19 > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.0 > > setup! > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: init 0000:00:1d.0 fail, -19 > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.1 > > setup! > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: init 0000:00:1d.1 fail, -19 > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.2 > > setup! > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: init 0000:00:1d.2 fail, -19 > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.3 > > setup! > > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19 > > GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main > > thread > > GC Warning: couldn't read /proc/stat > > Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile. > > Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL. > > > > loading kernel modules... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > > ERROR: In procedure scm-error: > > failed to resolve partition "31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833" > > %<-------------end paste--------------------------------- > > > > And then it enters the Guile 2.2.4 prompt, but the keyboard and USB ports > > are disabled at this stage, so I can't use it. > It appears that our initrd lacks the drivers needed to access the DVD > drive. > > 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------------------------->%
