Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience
Hi, # apt-get install refit (when it enters past the NEW queue) # gptsync /dev/sda I've temporarily put refit packages on: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/tmp/20060702/ I chrooted into /target from the second console of d-i and copied the deb package I got from your link. I the installed it and run # gptsync /dev/sda I then installed lilo and rebooted into osx; installed refit inside osx and now I can succesfully dual boot. Thanx alot for you help. I think parted is being clever and complying with the spec; which means it's creating a MBR FAT(fdisk) partition table containing only one partition. This means if you install with debian-installer, you have a broken FAT partition and a correct GPT partition. At this time, calling gptsync will 'fix' the partition table. Then, you will be able to install lilo, to the partition. Note that you don't install lilo to MBR, because MBR doesn't mean much to MacBook EFI; if you install to the partition, rEFIt will chain load for you. lilo will need to read the FAT partition table, which means GPT and FAT needs to be synced. Also it means that partition to install lilo needs to reside on the first 4 partitions, since FAT only has 4 primary partitions. BTW, the patch below is needed to avoid some warnings Davide [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/refit/refit-0.7$ diff -u debian/rules.orig debian/rules --- debian/rules.orig 2006-07-03 21:05:28.0 +0200 +++ debian/rules2006-07-04 01:28:42.0 +0200 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ -$(MAKE) -C refit clean -$(MAKE) -C gptsync -f Makefile.unix clean #-$(MAKE) -C gptsync -f Makefile clean - -rm gptsync/*.so gptsync/*.o gptsync/gptsync.efi + -rm -f gptsync/*.so gptsync/*.o gptsync/gptsync.efi dh_clean Thanks for the patch. However, this warning could be useful sometimes. It is only emitted for the first-time build only. The error is ignored with a '-' at the beginning. For second-time build, a warning will mean that the rm command is trying to remove something that doesn't exist, which would be nice to know. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],netfort.gr.jp} Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience
Hi Junichi, On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:47:26AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: could you please give more details about this? # apt-get install refit (when it enters past the NEW queue) # gptsync /dev/sda ok, so first I need to partition the disk on osx and then install refit inside debian. does lilo has to be installed before running gptsync? I've temporarily put refit packages on: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/tmp/20060702/ nice, I'll try it tonight. thanx, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:47:26AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Current work around is to reboot into rEFIt and run gptsync, and then run d-i from CDROM, and then configure the bootloader. could you please give more details about this? # apt-get install refit (when it enters past the NEW queue) # gptsync /dev/sda I've temporarily put refit packages on: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/tmp/20060702/ I chrooted into /target from the second console of d-i and copied the deb package I got from your link. I the installed it and run # gptsync /dev/sda I then installed lilo and rebooted into osx; installed refit inside osx and now I can succesfully dual boot. Thanx alot for you help. BTW, the patch below is needed to avoid some warnings Davide [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/refit/refit-0.7$ diff -u debian/rules.orig debian/rules --- debian/rules.orig 2006-07-03 21:05:28.0 +0200 +++ debian/rules2006-07-04 01:28:42.0 +0200 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ -$(MAKE) -C refit clean -$(MAKE) -C gptsync -f Makefile.unix clean #-$(MAKE) -C gptsync -f Makefile clean - -rm gptsync/*.so gptsync/*.o gptsync/gptsync.efi + -rm -f gptsync/*.so gptsync/*.o gptsync/gptsync.efi dh_clean install: build signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience
Hi, -- Forwarded Message -- ... ... Current work around is to reboot into rEFIt and run gptsync, and then run d-i from CDROM, and then configure the bootloader. could you please give more details about this? # apt-get install refit (when it enters past the NEW queue) # gptsync /dev/sda I've temporarily put refit packages on: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/tmp/20060702/ It really needs more work. but I don't know how to properly run this (usin bless I guess, but I have problems with the syntax) $ man bless (on MacOSX) I'm feeling quite stuck since it is impossible to install Debian without either an external storage or a MacOSX installation. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],netfort.gr.jp} Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience
Junichi sent this to d-devel, but I feel it's relevant for d-boot too :-) If anyone has suggestions, I'm sure they'll be welcome. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience Date: Saturday 01 July 2006 18:41 From: Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, Worst case: You have to abuse the firmware update released to facilitate Boot camp, and have that boot normal lilo. Perhaps not as nice as having EFI boot a bootload, or running a bootloader as an EFI application, but I think that is what most people are currently doing. I've tried actual installation and have a functional setup. Here is the current situation: 0. you can reduce the MacOSX partition size using Mac OSX diskutil command. $ sudo diskutil resizevolume disk0s2 20G 1. you can mostly install your system using debian-installer. cdrom boot is possible by holding down C key. 2. Installing the bootloader in d-i will fail. Current choice is elilo, grub and lilo, out of which they all fail after you have modified GPT partition, since it'll go out of sync with MBR. We probably need a phase to sync GPT-MBR here in d-i. Current work around is to reboot into rEFIt and run gptsync, and then run d-i from CDROM, and then configure the bootloader. 3. gptsync(rEFIt) seems to create paritions that look like FAT (I don't know why this has to be the case), and will only create up to 4 paritions due to obvious constraints. (you can check with fdisk -l) for /proc/partitions: major minor #blocks name 8 0 78150744 sda 8 1 204800 sda1 8 2 20971520 sda2 8 3 976563 sda3 8 4 19531250 sda4 8 52929688 sda5 # fdisk -l (MBR) will see: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 26 204819+ ee EFI GPT /dev/sda2 26263720971520 af Unknown /dev/sda3 *26372758 976563 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/sda42758519019531250+ ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) 4. However hard I tried I have not yet gotten elilo to work. It doesn't seem to be able to load the kernel; it seems to stop after starting to try loading the kernel. 5. grub doesn't seem to want to work. It probably is due to the fact that the MBR partition table claims partition type is all FAT, and grub is confused about it. 6. installing lilo to partition will work. Installing lilo to MBR is most probably not going to work. 7. If you have rEFIt, you can boot from USB devices etc. If you chose that way things are really simple since you can use FAT partitioning, which our existing tools (grub/lilo) function properly with. 8. to get rEFIt to work, you will need to locate the files and bless it with bless command in MacOSX. The command doesn't seem to affect the nvram parameters, so it's most probably changing something in the hfsplus filesystem. 9. The current working bootloading procedure is: rEFIt - lilo - linux kernel rEFIt - MacOSX 10. It is possible to use rEFIt on CDROM, which is useful for rescue booting. I'm feeling quite stuck since it is impossible to install Debian without either an external storage or a MacOSX installation. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],netfort.gr.jp} Debian Project --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:21:32PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Junichi sent this to d-devel, but I feel it's relevant for d-boot too :-) thanx, I got a Macbook today and I'm trying to install Debian on it First experience ever with an Apple product, so I have no background with tools / problems -- Forwarded Message -- ... ... Current work around is to reboot into rEFIt and run gptsync, and then run d-i from CDROM, and then configure the bootloader. could you please give more details about this? I read about gptsync from: http://sharealike.org/index.php?p=258more=1c=1tb=1pb=1 but I don't know how to properly run this (usin bless I guess, but I have problems with the syntax) I'm feeling quite stuck since it is impossible to install Debian without either an external storage or a MacOSX installation. same here thanx, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature
