[clug] Installing debian on a macpro - grub failed

Tue Dec 17 00:35:22 MST 2013

Hi my friends, (sorry my email is stupid lol)

Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for the help. I have learnt a lot from the various comments - you don't know what you don't know, and it is hard to research 'horse with a horn' when you don't know they are called unicorns lol. Merry Christmas Clugian genii gangsters =)

I will work through Paul's instructions and see how I go. Thanks team,

Regards,
LoganOn 17/12/2013, at 6:34 PM, Logan Ryan McLintock <u4955237 at anu.edu.au> wrote:

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> On 17/12/2013, at 6:33 PM, Logan Ryan McLintock <u4955237 at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Hi my friends,
>> 
>> Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for the help. I have learnt a lot from the various comments - you don't know what you don't know, and it is hard to research 'horse with a horn' when you don't know they are called unicorns lol. Merry Christmas Clugian genii gangsters =)
>> 
>> I will work through Paul's instructions and see how I go. Thanks team,
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Logan
>> 
>> On 17/12/2013, at 11:05 AM, Paul Warren <pwarren at pwarren.id.au> wrote:
>> 
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>>> On 16/12/13 22:56, Logan Ryan McLintock wrote:
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a MacPro 5,5 (the box one, not the macbook pro laptop) and I
>>>> am trying to install Debian. I booted a Partition Magic DVD and use
>>>> GParted to make all the three hard drives and single SSD ext4 (i.e.
>>>> erasing the terrible mountain lion).
>>>> 
>>>> Then I did the firmware nonfree netinst whilst connected to the
>>>> internet (behind a net gear router). Every thing went fine until
>>>> the Grub failed. I was using
>>>> 
>>>> debian firmware 7.2.0 amd64 netinst
>>>> 
>>>> and I checked sums before burning it.
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to install debian as the only operating system (no os
>>>> x, no rEFIt), booting naturally using efi, not bios emulation.
>>>> Maybe the grub in the Debian is too old?
>>>> 
>>>> I would really appreciate any help as I am quite unsure what to do.
>>>> I could probably use ubuntu as I think the installer can do the
>>>> whole efi grub 2 thing, but I would prefer debian.
>>>> 
>>>> I am willing to pay for help.
>>>> 
>>>> PS. Don't but macs
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Logan -) cyclops
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Here's what I had to do for my MACs:
>>> 
>>> EFI needs its own smallish partition with a fat32 filesystem
>>> 
>>> here's my layout with just one disk:
>>> 
>>> (parted) print
>>> Model: ATA Hitachi HTS54503 (scsi)
>>> Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
>>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
>>> Partition Table: gpt
>>> 
>>> Number  Start   End    Size    File system     Name  Flags
>>> 1      1049kB  512MB  511MB   fat32                 boot
>>> 2      512MB   316GB  316GB   ext4
>>> 3      316GB   320GB  4023MB  linux-swap(v1)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Now, debian does sort of support UEFI booting with the 7.2 install
>>> discs (haven't tried 7.3 yet but should be good), but there was some
>>> extra mucking about I had to do.
>>> 
>>> Once you've installed, and it boots the flashing folder icon (or
>>> question mark, I forget which). Boot into rescue mode, and let debian
>>> find the right root partition, and execute a shell in that partition.
>>> 
>>> You may have to:
>>> 
>>> mount /boot/efi
>>> 
>>> then:
>>> 
>>> apt-get install grub-efi-amd64
>>> 
>>> The installer for grub-efi-amd64 puts the boot executable in
>>> /efi/EFI/debian/grub64x64.efi
>>> 
>>> And we need to put that in the right place for EFI to load it:
>>> 
>>> mkdir /boot/efi/EFI/boot
>>> cp /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
>>> 
>>> then run:
>>> 
>>> update-grub
>>> 
>>> To make sure all the configs are in the right place.
>>> 
>>> Then reboot! and you should eventually get into debian :)
>>> 
>>> If you have a white screen for ~30s after the boot chime, and you want
>>> to get rid of the wait, you'll have to boot an OS X disk and run:
>>> 
>>> bless --device /dev/disk0s1 --setBoot --verbose
>>> 
>>> substituting the proper device node for your efi partition.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Also, if you have a relatively recent mac, it's a good idea to install
>>> OS X to a USB disk so you can run the firmware updates.
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps
>>> 
>>> - --
>>> Paul.
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