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 explicitly remove grub-pc, since g

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

2010-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
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: > >> reading around, it seems that some folks have been able to boot with > >> full capabilities (i.e. ACPI and

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

2010-09-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:47:44 -0400 Patrick Doyle wrote: > Thank you for the reply. I am able to boot either the 32-bit or the > 64-bit kernel via grub when it is installed in /dev/sda3 (my Linux > partition). But I have to set acpi=off (or maxcpus=1) in order to > boot the kernel. I am running

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 >> full capabilities (i.e

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

2010-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: > Thank you for the reply. I am able to boot either the 32-bit or the > 64-bit kernel via grub when it is installed in /dev/sda3 (my Linux > partition). But I have to set acpi=off (or maxcpus=1) in order to > boot the kernel. (This i

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't >> seem to get there. >> >> I have insta

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

2010-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
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't > seem to get there. > > I have installed 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 on a Macbook5,2. I would like to >