Intel iMac booting FC5

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Fri Apr 14 17:05:39 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 01:18 -0700, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Very similar to my setup then. Are you booting via lilo or elilo?

Via rEFIt on a separate partition so elilo I guess.

> I'll have to finally tinker with X some tomorrow w/the day off and all. Got 
> some pointers from ajax, though it looks like you're already doing what he 
> suggested... (imacfb w/fbdev for X)

Yea, that's what the live cd at mactel-linux does.

> I took a stock 2.6.16.5 kernel and patched in the imac-2.6.16.1.patch from 
> mactel-linux.org, also using the 2.6.16 config from there. Same patch applies 
> cleanly to the 2080 FC kernel, builds and installs fine, but no love on boot.

Same for me.

> I'm hoping we'll get some mactel hardware in the office sooner than later to 
> play with also.

Sounds good, thanks.

    David





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