FS#30804 - archiso doesn't work on EFI machine (macbook)
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Opened by mattia (nTia89) - Sunday, 22 July 2012, 21:23 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 18 January 2016, 04:13 GMT
Opened by mattia (nTia89) - Sunday, 22 July 2012, 21:23 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 18 January 2016, 04:13 GMT
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Details
latest (2012.07.15) archiso version doesn't boot on my
macbook (2,1)(EFI @ 32-bit)
after two seconds is shown this screen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/28aeok0op0i3o2u/2012-07-22%2022.49.31.jpg but the entire system stuck https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1134661#p1134661 |
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Closed by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Monday, 18 January 2016, 04:13 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Monday, 18 January 2016, 04:13 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
apple boot manager show me archiso only in BIOS-compatibility mode. then it crashes
We can do nothing about crash of booting Linux on Apple Mac.
now, is to understand if it's a problem related with EFI or not
32-bit EFI is not supported. Anyway a 32-bit enviroment can only run 32-bit EFI apps, in your case, 32-bit EFI app is the Linux bzImage (EFI_STUB) and EFI shell.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/100-series/100s-11-inch/
It runs an 64-bit Intel Atom but only has a 32-bit EFI. No alternate bios mode is available to work around this issue.
I'd highly appreciate to support 32-bit EFI on 64-bit systems since the amount of hardware using this weird setup seems to grow.