Hi Christoph, Le dimanche 15 octobre 2006 à 12:40 -0700, Christoph Pfisterer a écrit : > > I can't get my MacMini to boot in pure EFI mode using elilo. I tried > > various combinations of kernels, boot devices and elilo binaries, but > > whatever I do I keep getting the same errors. > > First of all, you should be aware of a known problem with rEFIt. When > you go to the EFI shell, then return to the rEFIt menu and select a > boot option, there is a chance that things will break, because the > shell tends to mess with open file handles and the likes (as in > unmounting and re-mounting all file systems for probing). You may get > better results when you go straight for the menu option.
I realized that. For example after a failed elilo boot like I described, a boot using lilo that normally succeeds will fail. Both errors that I described happen when I go straight from a fresh boot to the corresponding menu option. > Also, you can always try to run elilo from the EFI shell instead of > from the rEFIt menu. Shouldn't make a difference as for success, but > it may give better error messages. Could you give a bit more details how to do that? I have to define disk mappings by hand for it to work, no? > > Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong? > > Well, I don't think it's your fault. Building a working elilo binary > is a black art that not even the elilo/gnu-efi maintainers (which I > guess includes myself) have mastered. That's probably due to the fact > that elilo has had very little attention in the last few years, but > gcc+binutils keeps changing anyway. > > You may want to try the somewhat official build of elilo 3.6 for ia32: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91879 OK, I'll try that tonight. > Let me know how it goes, I might have more binaries for you to try. ;-) Thanks, Fred. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-devel mailing list Mactel-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-devel
