Comments for the blog of Chris

Comment on How to triple boot Mac Pro with OS X, Fedora, Windows by Gabe

Gabe — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:34:22 +0000

Hi Chris,

Sorry for insist a lot but, I will really appreciate your help. Do you have any news about this. Did you dislike the docs document. I can post the results here in the blog if you wish.

Regards and thank you,
Gabe

Comment on The new Anaconda installer by Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:39:39 +0000

Did you run verify and boot? Was that successful? Certainly seems like a bad burn to usb, but can’t say for sure without verify test.

-c

Comment on The new Anaconda installer by jg

jg — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:59 +0000

dd-ed and the rest. Exactly the same result as before. The blue bar moves along around 25%, and the message says Installing Software 100%, and it hangs there. I’ll give it one last go with a disc later.

Comment on The new Anaconda installer by jg

jg — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:07:26 +0000

Would it not be simpler to burn it to a DVD disc? I used Unetbootin. But if the USB is the problem, I might as well go with the disk. It’s a desktop PC rather than, say, a netbook, so I do have the option.

Comment on The new Anaconda installer by Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:42:55 +0000

Sorry to hear about the problems With USB drives, I’ve never had much luck other than to dd to the full drive (not a partition) e.g. sdx not sdx1. Like so:

dd if=korora.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4M && sync

Can you give that a try if you didn’t do it that way last time?

Also, at the boot menu of the live disk there is an advanced menu which lets you do a “verify and boot”, can you try this too after you do a new dd?

Let me know how you go!

Comment on The new Anaconda installer by jg

jg — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:15:56 +0000

I tried 6 times to install (the Gnome edition of) Korora on my machine last night, but the installer bar got part-way along, claimed 100% had been installed, and then hanged. Assuming that this might have to do with the known issue to do with reading swap from my disk, I went so far as to delete my swap partition, but still no luck. I’ve been trying to think of workaround, but I’m struggling. It’s a shame because I really liked the look of the Live version. I was installing from a USB stick if that makes any difference.

Comment on How to triple boot Mac Pro with OS X, Fedora, Windows by Gabe

Gabe — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:22:20 +0000

Hi Chris,

Sorry for not answer you earlier. I had a lot of work to do, and I thought that maybe your answer would be forwarded to my email. But didn’t.

Anyway, here are the details:
1. Yes I’m trying a 64bit system. How do I check if it is a 64bit EFI?

2. I used a Mac Installation disk to remove the current system and the RAID set (I was wondering if it was a problem with the RAID). So right now there is no MAC OS installed on the Machine. However, when I trying to install the Linux OS, no disk appears again.

3. In the link below you could find the result of the “dmesg” with the live OS. I attached some pics with the no disk message and the current mac os utilities. (you are able to edit and comment the doc file.)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lnzo-DAG_bRE_QVSmhQNyAvX4BfYJmkZCVgayPHzlD4/edit?usp=sharing

Please let me know what else I can do in order to install linux on this machine.

Thanks for your help,
Gabe

Comment on Linux on an Apple Xserve EFI only machine by Saad

Saad — Fri, 10 May 2013 06:17:49 +0000

Yes Chris, I have tried it and it did not boot.. I get to the grub menu then it doesn’t boot the kernel even with nomodeset.

[updates] on the above installation of 12.10 server now after installing fglrx, I can boot to the kernel without a problem and adding random xorg.conf file and rebooting without nomodeset solved the problem and I can see Lightdm because I did install ubuntu-desktop, however ubuntu gnome loads only desktop without unity panels.

installing xubuntu-desktop xfce loads well without a problem with menu and everything however the resolution is only 800×600!

Comment on Linux on an Apple Xserve EFI only machine by Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:19:57 +0000

Did you try Fedora 18 live cd?

-c

Comment on How to triple boot Mac Pro with OS X, Fedora, Windows by Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:18:43 +0000

Hi Gabe,

It should be possible, but unfortunately I don’t have access to the hardware any more so it’s hard for me to test and keep up-to-date with it. So do you mean you booted the Fedora installer (or live CD) and couldn’t see any disks? If you can boot a Fedora or Korora live CD and post some results like dmesg it would be helpful to see what’s going on.

Also, are you trying 64bit system? Is it a 64bit EFI?

-c