On Mo, 2007-01-29 at 12:24 -0500, Jerome Henin wrote: > Hi all, hi!
> I was just wondering if anyone had the same problem I am having, or
> had any ideas about it.
>
i had(have) exactly the same problems ;)
> The machine is a Macbook Pro C2D. I use RefIt (no BootCamp) to
> dual-boot between OSX and a 32-bit linux 2.6.19.2 with recent Mactel
> patches.
>
> Actually, there are two weird things happening:
>
> 1) LILO does not get any keyboard input. The only way I could interact
> with the LILO menu was plugging in an external USB keyboard, which
> made the internal one work! Anyway, once the right kernel is setup,
> this is only a minor annoyance.
>
its not only with lilo, but also with grub.. im wondering because when i
shutdown osx normally, it works (quite always). so maybe some cleanup of
any ram-module is needed or something like that. its a minor annyoance,
but it is one.. especially when you are trying some different kernel
settings, this is pretty annyoing..
> 2) On boot, I get these messages:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unknown-block(8,3)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs, etc.
> I would think there is something wrong with the partition table or the
> initrd if this was systematic, but it isn't. Sometimes it boots
> straight away, and if I just keep rebooting eventually it works. I
> would think it is a pure hardware problem, but MacOS never has any
> trouble booting.
i know that ;) you have to append some settings:
lilo: append="noapic acpi=force irqpoll pci=routeirq"
grub: kernel your-kernel-image root=/dev/sda3 noapic acpi=force irqpoll
pci=routeirq
e.g.:
lilo:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.5
label=2.6.18.5
root=/dev/sda3
append="noapic acpi=force irqpoll pci=routeirq"
grub:
title 2.6.18.5
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.5 root=/dev/sda3 noapic acpi=force irqpoll
pci=routeirq
hope it helps!!
daniel
>
> Thanks for your ideas,
> Jerome
>
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