Re: Installing elilo on MacMiniIntel fails

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> > $ chroot /target apt-get install refit
> > $ /target/sbin/gptsync /dev/sda
> > $ chroot /target
> > $ lilo /dev/sda3
> > (ignoring some warnings from lilo)
> > After this the installation continued fine, and I have no a running Debian 
> > system.
> 
> If we can identify a way to discover if it's truely a MacIntel machine
> we can make it transparent to end user ... let's see if we can do
> that.


dmidecode tells you that it's:

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Apple Computer, Inc.
	Product Name: MacBook1,1
	Version: 1.0
	Serial Number: 4H6231PKU9D
	UUID: 9CFE245E-D0C8-BD45-A79F-54EA5FBD3D97
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: System SKUNumber
	Family: Napa Mac


Product Name should be enough.


Looking around at kernel patches, they seem to be checking for this also:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/16/18

+static struct dmi_system_id __initdata pci_mmcfg_dmi_system_apple[] = {
+	{ pci_mmcfg_force_system, "iMac4,1", {
+	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR,"Apple Computer, Inc."),
+	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION,"iMac4,1") }},
+	{ pci_mmcfg_force_system, "MacBookPro1,1", {
+	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR,"Apple Computer, Inc."),
+	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION,"MacBookPro1,1") }},
+	{ pci_mmcfg_force_system, "MacBook1,1", {
+	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR,"Apple Computer, Inc."),
+	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME,"MacBook1,1")}},
+	{ pci_mmcfg_force_system, "Macmini1,1", {
+	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR,"Apple Computer, Inc."),
+	  DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME,"Macmini1,1")}},
+	{},
+};


regards,
	junichi
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