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Installation & Upgrade => Installation => Topic started by: forerunner on June 27, 2015, 12:37:07 PM

Title: boot fail on macbookpro2.1
Post by: forerunner on June 27, 2015, 12:37:07 PM
I have a macbookpro 2.1 (later 2006 with EFI i386) with a bug on firmware that not receive keyboard input in case of DVD with both support for bios and EFI only x64bit. This means no boot with distro x64bit –> at moment it is installed LMDE2 i386.

Since rel 4 added support for EFI i386 I tried to install it:
boot via efi OK
but the system hangs trying to load the kernel...............same behaviour in compatibility mode too.

Any suggestions?
Title: Re: boot fail on macbookpro2.1
Post by: MoroS on June 27, 2015, 03:43:32 PM
One thing you can do to check if it's a KMS issue (sounds like one) is to try to add "acpi=off" or "nomodeset" to the kernel command line parameters (while in GRUB press 'e', find the line starting with "linux" and add one of the mentioned options at the end).
Title: Re: boot fail on macbookpro2.1
Post by: forerunner on June 28, 2015, 11:33:35 AM
Great "nomodeset" make the magic!!!!

Thanks a lot.
Title: Re: boot fail on macbookpro2.1
Post by: MoroS on June 28, 2015, 11:45:36 AM
Quote from: forerunner on June 28, 2015, 11:33:35 AM
Great "nomodeset" make the magic!!!!

Thanks a lot.

Great. :) To make the setting permanent (any manual grub.cfg edits will be removed by kernel updates) add the "nomodeset" to the following line to /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

So it will look like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

That way, when a kernel update occurs, GRUB will automatically add "nomodeset" for you.
Title: Re: boot fail on macbookpro2.1
Post by: forerunner on June 28, 2015, 04:26:26 PM
No need to add "nomodeset" after installation. This issue happens only booting live image.......

Install linux on this machine has always been quite a nightmare!!!!!!!!

I dealt with EFI i386, no boot from USB, keyboard bug with ISO both bios and x64 EFI support, live kernel hang and so.......... >:(

Usually I succeded to install only ubuntu flavours with their iso x64 for mac image.  :)

Sparky Linux is the first distribution which I can boot from DVD in EFI mode......Absolutely GREAT!!!!!!!!!! ;D