Debian Lenny on Macbook
* Not much tweak needed for installation, except following lines before installing LILO:
chroot /target aptitude install refit /target/sbin/gptsync /dev/sda
Now weekend is for other things to make them work by reading long Debian on Macbook Wiki page.
All the best! Are you willing to dual-boot Debian with MacOSX?
Aamod
August 16, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Done. Mac + Debian works fine. Now, wifi and right click are issues to hunt..
Kartik Mistry
August 17, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Nothing about this post particularly, i comment to say that the Debian badge il your sidebar link to debAIn.org (i didn’t find your email on the page).
p4bl0
August 30, 2008 at 2:37 am
Make me please examples whis grub?
EugeneVC
October 23, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I use rEFIt as the boot manager, with GRUB installed on the Debian partition instead of the MBR.
Beware of the GRUB numbering scheme!
I have these:
- EFI
- Mac OS X
- M$ Windows
- Debian
- swap
While Debian is /dev/sda4 in the classic naming, it is (hd0,4) in GRUB parlance. (It’s the first logical partition, (hd0,3) being the extended partition).
You should have an hybrid GPT/MBR partition table. If you partitioned using an old version of Mac OS X, install rEFIt and use gptsync (included in rEFIt, select “Partitioning Tool” in the boot menu) to synchronize the tables.
Quique
November 27, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I might be wrong but isn’t it:
/dev/sda1 = (hd0,0)
/dev/sda2 = (hd0,1)
and so on…
so /dev/sd4 would be (hd0,3)
no?
albesan
January 31, 2009 at 6:07 am
You are right …
Lars
March 18, 2009 at 12:47 am