[gobolinux-users] 014 on Macbooks?

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 10/16/07, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Fabian Bergström <fabian.bergstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried both with and without refit. But I can't really adapt the
> > guides that are out there to gobolinux, I don't know how to install
> > lilo. Sites say grub has issues with efi and/or gpt.
> > I tried elilo as well, but I get a load error when booting it.
> >
> > lilo says:
> > Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0013 (NFS/RAID mirror down?)
> > when I try to install it after having installed gobolinux on the
> > macbook, but I don't think I did it right trying to run lilo without
> > chrooting to my installed system from the livecd.
> >
> > It's a core2 duo macbook
> >
>
> Oh yeah, that's right, you have to use LILO.  I completely forgot!
> Sorry.  Attached is my lilo.conf.  Change the "root=" lines to your
> partition.  Here's a general recipe:
>
> * Boot with LiveCD
> * Install
> * Open xterm/konsole
> * Mount install somewhere "mount /dev/sda3 /Mount/GoboLinux" (may
> already be mounted after install not sure)
> * bind mount /dev onto install "mount -o bind /System/Kernel/Devices
> /Mount/GoboLinux/System/Kernel/Devices"
> * bind mount /sys onto install "mount -o bind /System/Kernel/Status
> /Mount/GoboLinux/System/Kernel/Status"
> * bind mount /proc onto install "mount -o bind /System/Kernel/Objects
> /Mount/GoboLinux/System/Kernel/Objects"
> * chroot into install "chroot /Mount/GoboLinux su -"
> * Install LILO package(if needed, not sure if on LiveCD) "InstallPackage LILO"
> * copy/edit attached lilo.conf in /Programs/LILO/Settings
> * run SymlinkPrograms LILO (make sure there is a /etc/lilo.conf symlink)
> * run lilo "lilo"
> * exit chroot
> * umount bind mounts and /Mount/GoboLinux
> * reboot
>
> should be good to go.  Also delete the last section of my lilo.conf.
> That was for the knoppix kernel I used to bootstrap my 013 install.

A-ha, so there really is a trick for installing in Macbooks.

LILO is included in the Live-CD yes, and the installer generates a
lilo.conf file if LILO was checked in the package list, but it does
not provide an option to actually install LILO.

Could you check if the lilo.conf it generates is correct? Adding
support for hassle-free installation on Macbooks would be a most
welcome addition.

-- Hisham