Attached screen shots...bounced back On Sun, 24 May 2020, 8:09 pm Sanjay Mysore, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pl. see the attached file. Libreboot options shown..Adelie Rc1 or beta4 > cannot be booted by any of these options... > Since AdelieLinux is about free software, pl. make it work with libreboot > > On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 23:22, Sanjay Mysore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mr. Reeves >> You are right in that it was not booting only on libreboot. On my friends >> machine with BIOS, it booted. Sorry.... >> Yet, after booting, it asks if you want to install or play around, i.e >> live. When I select live, it falls into a zsh shell. >> I am familiar with bash...not used zsh till now >> As a blind shot, typed startx...nothing happened >> >> On Sat, 23 May 2020, 9:46 pm Max Rees, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sat May 23 11:58 AM, Sanjay Mysore wrote: >>> > Thanks for replying.. >>> > I did not mean to be pointing fingers at any body, but I am frustrated >>> > that after having downloaded 2 .iso, both do not work I do not think >>> > it has anything to do with Libreboot as such.... >>> >>> I think it has everything to do with Libreboot. >>> >>> The docs for it are kind of sparse so I'm shooting in the dark here. I >>> tried using the GRUB payload ROMs they provide for QEMU but it causes an >>> internal KVM error as soon as it's loaded. >>> >>> Looking back to your original email and referencing the Libreboot docs, >>> it seems you were trying to boot the ISO as if it were an ISOLINUX >>> image. This is not the case - our ISOs have not been ISOLINUX based >>> since before BETA1; they all use GRUB now. This explains why it would >>> just return to the original menu without having done anything - it was >>> looking for a file to parse that does not exist on our images. >>> >>> I guess Libreboot does not have GRUB set up to similarly parse other >>> GRUB configurations. You can try running some commands at the GRUB >>> command line (press "c" at the menu) to try to manually boot the ISO >>> (this is based on boot/grub.cfg from the x86_64 RC1 ISO): >>> >>> 1. linux (cd)/bzImage-x86_64 squashroot=x86_64.squashfs >>> 2. initrd (cd)/initrd-x86_64 >>> 3. boot >>> >>> Max >>> >> > > -- > With Best Regards > Sanjay. M.R >
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