Calvin Heim <frofro...@gmail.com> writes: > Apologies for the formatting errors in the previous email. Hopefully this > message is cleaner. > > GRUB loads. > I add acpi=off to the boot options and boot. Otherwise, the screen goes black > with a '-' symbol at the top left corner and freezes. > > So, after booting with acpi=off, the display shows the following lines (with > timestamps on the > left, but I had to manually transcribe so I left them off): > > %<---------------begin pasted text----------------------- > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.7 > setup! > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19 > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.0 > setup! > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: init 0000:00:1d.0 fail, -19 > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.1 > setup! > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: init 0000:00:1d.1 fail, -19 > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.2 > setup! > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: init 0000:00:1d.2 fail, -19 > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.3 > setup! > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19 > GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main > thread > GC Warning: couldn't read /proc/stat > Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile. > Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL. > > loading kernel modules... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > ERROR: In procedure scm-error: > failed to resolve partition "31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833" > %<-------------end paste--------------------------------- > > And then it enters the Guile 2.2.4 prompt, but the keyboard and USB ports > are disabled at this stage, so I can't use it.
It appears that our initrd lacks the drivers needed to access the DVD drive. I did some looking around for any recently updated tutorials on how to install GNU/Linux on a MacBook 1,1, and the only recent success story I found involved installing the rEFInd boot manager and using it to boot to a USB installer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRai14ETKU I would suggest something along those lines, since it would eliminate the need to access the DVD drive from the initrd, which seems to be where you're currently getting stuck. Mark
