On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 19:37 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Calvin, > > Calvin Heim <frofro...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 15:15 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > I have now removed the DVD and made a live USB with the > > guix-system-install-1.0.1.i686-linux.iso image. > > Selecting the live usb at (what I believe to be) the EFI leads to the > > GuixSD LiveUSB image's GRUB, replete with the GUIXSD logo. > > Setting the acpi=off boot option in the GuixSD LiveUSB image's GRUB leads > > to the same log that is > > pasted in my previous email, quoted above. When I saw the identifier for > > the DVD drive again in the log, > > I double-checked to make sure that my previous DVD was not in the drive. > > Nope, it's in a vinyl CD case. > > > > David Stumph (the author of the video) is using lubuntu 16.04 in the video. > > He attempted 18.10 > > but that resulted in a kernel panic. I also see a kernel panic without > > setting acpi=off > > in the grub boot options. In case someone in the future is searching for > > this issue, the kernel panic message is > > > > > > %----------begin pasted text----------------->% > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout: Not all CPUs entered broadcast > > exception handler > > Shutting down cpus with NMI > > Kernel Offset : 0x8000000 from 0xc1000000 (relocation range: > > 0xc0000000-0xf7dfdfff) > > Kernel rebooting in 30 seconds > > > > > > %----------end paste------------------------->% > Ubuntu 16.04 uses linux-4.4. We have linux-libre-4.4 (LTS) in Guix, but > our 1.0.1 installer images are based on linux-libre-5.1. > > It might be worth using another machine to build a Guix installer image > that uses linux-libre-4.4, and trying that. Is it important that it's another machine, and not this machine (Macbook1,1)? This machine has Trisquel 8 currently running and functional. I am confident that I can reinstall the Guix package manager on it to build the suggested custom installation image.
> Here's how: Section 3.9 > (Building the Installation Image) describes how to build an installer > image, but instead of passing "gnu/system/install.scm", pass the name of > a modified version of that file, with (kernel linux-libre-4.4) added as > an additional field to 'installation-os'. > > Mark
