Re: [opensuse] Installing Opensuse 13.2 on a Macbook 2.1 (2006)
Hallo again! I managed to install refind through an old osx and then with refind i managed to install oS 13.2 but when i everytime i start the laptop the entry of oS is shown in refind. When i select it a black screen is coming say: "No bootable device found…insert a bottable…". And: When i insert the Install-DVD while the laptop is booting i reach at first the menu of the install-dvd. When i then select "Boot from harddisk" everyhing works fine and grub2 is loaded and oS ist working like a charm… I think it has to do with the bootmanager (refind) and the bootloader of oS. I also tried the follwoing: created a folder "Opensuse" in the /sda1/EFI/efi/ and put in there the vmlinuz… kernel and the corresponding intird… this lead to the result that the bootoption has shown up in the refind menue buzt when i select it the process hangs up. I also tried to rename the kernel with .efi ending. I also tried to enable efistub but i don know how to do this… Help is appreciated ;) Thanks, Benjamin. Ps.: Thanks Simon for your good advice! Am 03.09.2015 um 17:36 schrieb Benjamin:
Hi! Thanks for the hint, i will try it asap and let you know…Thanks!
Best, Benjamin.
Am 03.09.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Simon Heimbach:
Hi Benjamin,
have you got refind installed? Especially on older Macs there's no way around overwriting your EFI-firmware. You find the download and an instruction here: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ After having installed refind, you can easily boot from a DVD, install opensuse and GRUB and then have a choice what you want to boot during the startup of your computer.
Read the instructions carefully. I don't know what happens if you have Win installed via Bootcamp. You might run into some trouble and you better be safe than sorry :).
Regards! Simon
Am 02.09.2015 13:52, schrieb Benjamin:
Hi Guys! I have a problem with the installation of Opensuse on a Macbook 2.1 (the white one with the black spot to the right). I tried o whole lot of different methods install oS but nothing seems to work. I tried to insert the dvd, some live cds also via usb and i tried also to make an seperat partition in the internal hdd on which a put the installation iso with dd command. But nothing seems to help, the installation media is not even detected by the startup manager of the macbook. I'm sorry to ask here because too I'm not a friend of apple ;) but anyway…The only thing i managed to do is the follwoing Question: I installed Windows XP which i had on an old cd. From win xp i tried to install oS 13.2 via the installer. In the bootmenu i can see the 13.2. installer but when i select it, i get an error concerning the harddisk. The Error Message is simply, that there is something rotten with the harddiskconfiguration. Then the black screen appears and the system hangs. I know that it is quite special stuff because the Laptop is from the year 2006 but maybe someone knows o word about that…Thanks.
Best, Benjamin.
Ps.: I also tried it with the 12.2 dvd. But the same error occurs. Pss.: Beside Win XP i also managed to start gparted via a live-Cd…helpful that stuff!
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Hi Benjamin, to be honest, I'm not familiar with refind, but used refit a couple of years back. I do remember having to synchronise the MBR with the refit internal boot arguments. For me this seems as if that could be the problem here as well. Is there any script that says it can such a thing? Secondly, you could also have a look at the refind-config? If you can spot the opensuse-entry, you can maybe see that your DVD-drive has higher priority than the opensuse-partition. Do a backup and then comment out the DVD-paragraph. You can still undo everything with your backup - better safe than sorry. I'd be interested if you can get opensuse booting correctly without issues. Simon Am 14.09.2015 14:46, schrieb Benjamin:
Hallo again! I managed to install refind through an old osx and then with refind i managed to install oS 13.2 but when i everytime i start the laptop the entry of oS is shown in refind. When i select it a black screen is coming say: "No bootable device found…insert a bottable…". And: When i insert the Install-DVD while the laptop is booting i reach at first the menu of the install-dvd. When i then select "Boot from harddisk" everyhing works fine and grub2 is loaded and oS ist working like a charm… I think it has to do with the bootmanager (refind) and the bootloader of oS. I also tried the follwoing: created a folder "Opensuse" in the /sda1/EFI/efi/ and put in there the vmlinuz… kernel and the corresponding intird… this lead to the result that the bootoption has shown up in the refind menue buzt when i select it the process hangs up. I also tried to rename the kernel with .efi ending. I also tried to enable efistub but i don know how to do this…
Help is appreciated ;) Thanks, Benjamin.
Ps.: Thanks Simon for your good advice!
Am 03.09.2015 um 17:36 schrieb Benjamin:
Hi! Thanks for the hint, i will try it asap and let you know…Thanks!
Best, Benjamin.
Am 03.09.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Simon Heimbach:
Hi Benjamin,
have you got refind installed? Especially on older Macs there's no way around overwriting your EFI-firmware. You find the download and an instruction here: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ After having installed refind, you can easily boot from a DVD, install opensuse and GRUB and then have a choice what you want to boot during the startup of your computer.
Read the instructions carefully. I don't know what happens if you have Win installed via Bootcamp. You might run into some trouble and you better be safe than sorry :).
Regards! Simon
Am 02.09.2015 13:52, schrieb Benjamin:
Hi Guys! I have a problem with the installation of Opensuse on a Macbook 2.1 (the white one with the black spot to the right). I tried o whole lot of different methods install oS but nothing seems to work. I tried to insert the dvd, some live cds also via usb and i tried also to make an seperat partition in the internal hdd on which a put the installation iso with dd command. But nothing seems to help, the installation media is not even detected by the startup manager of the macbook. I'm sorry to ask here because too I'm not a friend of apple ;) but anyway…The only thing i managed to do is the follwoing Question: I installed Windows XP which i had on an old cd. From win xp i tried to install oS 13.2 via the installer. In the bootmenu i can see the 13.2. installer but when i select it, i get an error concerning the harddisk. The Error Message is simply, that there is something rotten with the harddiskconfiguration. Then the black screen appears and the system hangs. I know that it is quite special stuff because the Laptop is from the year 2006 but maybe someone knows o word about that…Thanks.
Best, Benjamin.
Ps.: I also tried it with the 12.2 dvd. But the same error occurs. Pss.: Beside Win XP i also managed to start gparted via a live-Cd…helpful that stuff!
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Hi Simon! Thanks for the post...Ähm actually i did not manage get Opensuse to work on the macbook. Finally i think the problem was not with refind since it booted nicely. I do think, that the problem was with the /boot of my fresh oS 13.2 i386 install: no "efi" boot directory and files were created, so i think, that refind and efi couldn boot into oS. A friend of mine told me that it might work to directly copy the efi-folder to /boot (from an existing i386 system) but anyway i didn´t find the time to try this…finally i installed Ubunut 14.04 LTS on the book and a "efi" folder was created and the systems is booting – slow but steady. Strange things happening with the macbook bootstuff – i guess my relation to apple stuff did not change for the better with this time-swallowing experiences... Thanks anyway for help! I still prefer oS myself and love the new landing page ;) Have fun! Am 20.09.2015 um 19:25 schrieb Simon Heimbach:
Hi Benjamin,
to be honest, I'm not familiar with refind, but used refit a couple of years back. I do remember having to synchronise the MBR with the refit internal boot arguments. For me this seems as if that could be the problem here as well.
Is there any script that says it can such a thing?
Secondly, you could also have a look at the refind-config? If you can spot the opensuse-entry, you can maybe see that your DVD-drive has higher priority than the opensuse-partition. Do a backup and then comment out the DVD-paragraph. You can still undo everything with your backup - better safe than sorry.
I'd be interested if you can get opensuse booting correctly without issues.
Simon
Am 14.09.2015 14:46, schrieb Benjamin:
Hallo again! I managed to install refind through an old osx and then with refind i managed to install oS 13.2 but when i everytime i start the laptop the entry of oS is shown in refind. When i select it a black screen is coming say: "No bootable device found…insert a bottable…". And: When i insert the Install-DVD while the laptop is booting i reach at first the menu of the install-dvd. When i then select "Boot from harddisk" everyhing works fine and grub2 is loaded and oS ist working like a charm… I think it has to do with the bootmanager (refind) and the bootloader of oS. I also tried the follwoing: created a folder "Opensuse" in the /sda1/EFI/efi/ and put in there the vmlinuz… kernel and the corresponding intird… this lead to the result that the bootoption has shown up in the refind menue buzt when i select it the process hangs up. I also tried to rename the kernel with .efi ending. I also tried to enable efistub but i don know how to do this…
Help is appreciated ;) Thanks, Benjamin.
Ps.: Thanks Simon for your good advice!
Am 03.09.2015 um 17:36 schrieb Benjamin:
Hi! Thanks for the hint, i will try it asap and let you know…Thanks!
Best, Benjamin.
Am 03.09.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Simon Heimbach:
Hi Benjamin,
have you got refind installed? Especially on older Macs there's no way around overwriting your EFI-firmware. You find the download and an instruction here: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ After having installed refind, you can easily boot from a DVD, install opensuse and GRUB and then have a choice what you want to boot during the startup of your computer.
Read the instructions carefully. I don't know what happens if you have Win installed via Bootcamp. You might run into some trouble and you better be safe than sorry :).
Regards! Simon
Am 02.09.2015 13:52, schrieb Benjamin:
Hi Guys! I have a problem with the installation of Opensuse on a Macbook 2.1 (the white one with the black spot to the right). I tried o whole lot of different methods install oS but nothing seems to work. I tried to insert the dvd, some live cds also via usb and i tried also to make an seperat partition in the internal hdd on which a put the installation iso with dd command. But nothing seems to help, the installation media is not even detected by the startup manager of the macbook. I'm sorry to ask here because too I'm not a friend of apple ;) but anyway…The only thing i managed to do is the follwoing Question: I installed Windows XP which i had on an old cd. From win xp i tried to install oS 13.2 via the installer. In the bootmenu i can see the 13.2. installer but when i select it, i get an error concerning the harddisk. The Error Message is simply, that there is something rotten with the harddiskconfiguration. Then the black screen appears and the system hangs. I know that it is quite special stuff because the Laptop is from the year 2006 but maybe someone knows o word about that…Thanks.
Best, Benjamin.
Ps.: I also tried it with the 12.2 dvd. But the same error occurs. Pss.: Beside Win XP i also managed to start gparted via a live-Cd…helpful that stuff!
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