[DONE] Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook

2013-08-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Well, I returned the laptop to the university. It turns out the person who had it before me had the same problem of OS X not booting sometimes (with the original disk, not the new SSD we installed when I got it). When I got the laptop, I was in fact told that it wouldn't start, but we understood

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook

2013-08-21 Thread Keith Dart
Re , Marc Joliet said: Now since I am productive with it, I wanted to install Gentoo on it but have thus far failed. So here are my overall goals: - install Gentoo - ideally ditch OS X - boot using EFI instead of in BIOS compatibility mode (e.g., I read that this I had Gentoo on a Macbook

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook

2013-08-21 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:24:36 -0700 schrieb Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz: Re , Marc Joliet said: Now since I am productive with it, I wanted to install Gentoo on it but have thus far failed. So here are my overall goals: - install Gentoo - ideally ditch OS X - boot using EFI

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook

2013-08-20 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:19:23 +0200 schrieb Marc A. Kastner li...@mkasu.org: I used Linux on a couple of different MacBooks. Usually I had the best experience not using rEFInd as an intermediate layer, but as the EFI boot loader loading the kernel file directly. My setup is based on the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook

2013-08-20 Thread Marc A. Kastner
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013, at 05:03 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: I tried using an EFI stub kernel, but the firmware does not seem to pick it up. I suspect I will have to try blessing it again, but after rebooting into the OS X 10.7 DVD yet again, it didn't find the SSD *again*. So I will get to work

[gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook

2013-08-19 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi all, For the duration of my MSc thesis (and for my job) I have lent a laptop from my university. This laptop happens to be a 2007 model Macbook (plus a new SSD, since somebody else has the original drive because his data is still on there), and chances are slim that I will be able to lend a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook

2013-08-19 Thread Marc A. Kastner
I used Linux on a couple of different MacBooks. Usually I had the best experience not using rEFInd as an intermediate layer, but as the EFI boot loader loading the kernel file directly. My setup is based on the ArchLinux Wiki article about it. Every time you update your kernel, you just need to