RE: GRUB2 / Intel Mac Mini / USB Key

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
What steps are you taking? I mean what are the steps on the keyboard that
you are using? Back when Macs still wore a PowerPC under the covers, a chap
who owns one, wrote about getting his to bring up YDL (Yellow Dog Linux),
supposedly the only one also blessed by that community, to boot that way he
used a series of keystrokes. There's an interesting article on what happened
in Linux Journal, that website is www.linuxjournal.com 

Of course he also had a series of bad falls on his way to getting to work,
but that's also documented in that article.

I am asking it this way, because your problem closely resembles that of his
problems.

Also please post the location for your boot supporting tool.
--
Gregg C Levine address@hidden
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Trevor Peirce
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 7:42 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: GRUB2 / Intel Mac Mini / USB Key
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to boot an Intel Mac Mini into a Gentoo kernel living on a
> USB Key.  Currently rEFIt is installed and provides dual boot to OSX and
> Gentoo on the hard drive.
> 
> I have a USB Key that is set up with GPT and hosts an ext2 filesystem.
> GRUB2 is installed, and key has been bless'd by OSX.  When booting,
> rEFIt shows the option to boot and will boot into GRUB2.
> 
> I can choose the kernel and GRUB appears to load it.  Then it freezes.
> 
> cube3 grub # cat grub.cfg
> set timeout=10
> set debug=10
> 
> menuentry "Cube Key Loader" {
>         set root=(hd0,1)
>         linux /boot/cubekernel root=/dev/sda5 ro video=imacfb:mini
> acpi=force libata.atapi_enabled=1 pcboot=cdrom gpt
> }
> 
> I have also tried "linux /boot/cubekernel" just to see if that would
> work.  It didn't.
> 
> The last thing I'll see on the screen is
> 
> Booting "Cube Key Loader"...
> 
> [Linux-EFI, onetag=somenumber, another-tag=anothernumber]
> 
> Then the system hangs.
> 
> This exact same kernel is working when booted from rEFIt on the harddrive.
> 
> Any ideas, suggestions, questions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Trevor Peirce
> 
> 
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