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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