Re: How to configure grub2 to boot identical kernel with different kernel parameters

2010-11-09 Thread Patrick Doyle
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On my system I have two scripts in /etc/grub.d - 40_custom, > 90_persistent (I think the latter is not part of upstream). The first > just dumps contents of file verbatim, the second preserves everything > you added between delimiters in g

How to configure grub2 to boot identical kernel with different kernel parameters

2010-11-08 Thread Patrick Doyle
I would like to configure my grub2 setup on Ubuntu 10.04 such that I can boot with one of two different sets of kernel parameters. I am at a loss as to what terms I should feed into Google to explain to me how to do this, so I figured I'd just ask you folks. Sometimes I want to boot with the defa

Re: Booting 64-bit Linux on a Macbook5,2

2010-09-24 Thread Patrick Doyle
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:06:37PM -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: > You don't need to explic

Re: Booting 64-bit Linux on a Macbook5,2

2010-09-23 Thread Patrick Doyle
Thank you again for taking the time to reply and to help me work through this... On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: >> reading around, it seems that some folks have been able to boot with >> fu

Re: Booting 64-bit Linux on a Macbook5,2

2010-09-23 Thread Patrick Doyle
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:16:24PM -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: >> I don't know where to turn here.  It seems that every thread I've >> found that describes this ends with "and now it works", but I can&#

Booting 64-bit Linux on a Macbook5,2

2010-09-22 Thread Patrick Doyle
Help, I don't know where to turn here. It seems that every thread I've found that describes this ends with "and now it works", but I can't seem to get there. I have installed 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 on a Macbook5,2. I would like to boot this without the acpi=off parameter that is currently required.