You can find the kernel config I used at. (When you do this in future you need to set the boot flag, rerun lilo and rerun the rEFIt partition tool because parted seems to clear all that.). You don't need to mkfs again (unless you changed the numbers). Run parted and delete and recreate the partitions with the exact same numbers again and the kernel will suddenly know about them. But when you run the install CD again, the kernel won't know about any of your partitions (because it's a GPT, which I'm guessing the install kernel doesn't know about). (Also, remember that when configuring the kernel).Īfter the partitioning and mkfs you can check that the system still boots. The partition table is in GPT format and fdisk doesn't know about it. You must use parted to partition the disk. With the 2006.0 install kernel the Sky2 NIC will work, but the wireless doesn't (yet) so you'll need a cabled Internet connection. Press the power button and hold 'c' to boot from the CD. ![]() Insert a Gentoo 2006.0 minimal install CD and shutdown the system. Click “Restart Mac OS X” and check that the system can still boot. Run it, don't make a driver CD and partition the disk however you want. rEFIt is an EFI bootloader which will be booting lilo for us. I don't know how stable the URLs are, but currently it's at:įollow all the instructions about installing the firmware and don't interrupt the process, lest you want to turn your mini into a brick.īoot into OS X (you can hold the Option key at startup to select the boot volume - but it should be the default) and install rEFIt from refit.sf.net. You want two fireware updates and the first (SMC) should have happened via Software Update. After the reboot goto and search for “mini”. Select software update from the Apple menu and get 10.4.7 and all the fireware options offered (I only had one). I'm working from a completly clean OS X install here so you may have already done some of these steps: Pay attention to the Bootcamp warnings and backup any data you care about first. ![]() Warning: the first time I tried this Bootcamp chomped the OS X filesystem and make the system unbootable. Headline: all the hardware works and seems to work well.
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