[Fwd: Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro]

2008-11-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:39:44 +0800 From: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: none To: Mike Grice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro

2008-11-20 Thread jsmurf
In case anyone cares, the problem was that the RAM disk was loaded by LILO, but not found by the kernel (I guess the address "0" printed in the error messages is incorrect, since "an initrd should be placed near the end of memory" (Linux kernel docs), so it might be a LILO bug, the starting a

Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro

2008-11-18 Thread jsmurf
Hi all, (This is both an install report and a help request, so I'm cross-posting on debian-boot and debian-user.) I'm trying to install Debian on a late 2008 MacBook Pro. I had no luck with Debian Etch 4.0r5 (AMD64): the keyboard couln't be set correctly (it reacted as if the control key w

Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro

2008-11-18 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > (This is both an install report and a help request, so I'm cross-posting on > debian-boot and debian-user.) > > I'm trying to install Debian on a late 2008 MacBook Pro. > > I had no luck with Debian Etch 4.0r5 (AMD64): the

Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro

2008-11-17 Thread jsmurf
Hi all, (This is both an install report and a help request, so I'm cross-posting on debian-boot and debian-user.) I'm trying to install Debian on a late 2008 MacBook Pro. I had no luck with Debian Etch 4.0r5 (AMD64): the keyboard couln't be set correctly (it reacted as if the control key wa