Bug#783325: jessie rc3 requires nomodeset in grub.cfg to boot an i386 iMac with a radeon vga.
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree
Bug: jessie rc3 requires nomodeset in grub.cfg to boot an i386 iMac with a radeon vga.
The system is a Core Duo (i386) iMac model 4,1. 2GB ram, 250GB hard drive.
Pertinent information from the install is appended: lspci, parted, fstab.
rEFInd 0.8.7 was used to boot the Jessie rc3 i386 dvd1. rEFInd is installed on /dev/sda5.
The system installed normally. I did not have a working wifi connection or hardwired ethernet.
I've never gotten a flash drive set up and working with the Broadcom b43 driver to load.
After installation rEFInd shows two Debian swirls for two efi bootloaders.
On the initial boot using the grubia32.efi icon, the system appeared to halt after doing the fsck.
I went into rescue mode, modified /etc/default/grub to remove "quiet" as an option.
Then rebuilt the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file by using "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg"
This time, the verbose display shows the system halted right after a switch to the radeon framebuffer.
I then changed the linux line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg to end in "ro nomodeset" to not switch to the radeon framebuffer.
(I know I need to change file "/etc/grub.d/10_linux " to make this change permanent.)
The iMac now completes the Jessie rc3 boot.
I didn't have to do this for wheezy... as I recall, the radeon firmware load failed and wheezy continued booting without acceleration.
Congrats to everyone that contributed to making EFI work on this buggy EFI hardware.
The package used for this report is "firmware-linux-nonfree" because I couldnt think of anything closer.
This package does not have a driver for this model radeon vga.
wifi works after manually setting up the /lib/firmware/b43 directory from a tarball made under wheezy.
lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:07.0 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Device 27a3 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV530/M56-P [Mobility Radeon X1600]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): LSI Corporation FW322/323 [TrueFire] 1394a Controller (rev 61)
partition listing from parted:
(parted) print
Model: ATA WDC WD2500JS-40N (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp
2 210MB 50.2GB 50.0GB hfs+ iMacGLW
3 50.4GB 140GB 90.0GB hfs+ devel
4 140GB 150GB 9866MB hfs+ comhfs
5 150GB 151GB 999MB hfs+ rEFInd
6 151GB 152GB 99.6MB aBios
7 152GB 152GB 99.6MB bBios msftdata
8 152GB 154GB 2000MB ext2 aBoot msftdata
9 154GB 156GB 2000MB ext2 bBoot msftdata
10 156GB 196GB 40.0GB ext4 aRoot msftdata
11 196GB 236GB 40.0GB ext4 bRoot msftdata
12 236GB 239GB 3000MB linux-swap(v1) aSwap
13 239GB 242GB 3000MB linux-swap(v1) bSwap msftdata
14 242GB 250GB 8371MB linux-swap(v1) ctest msftdata
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda11 during installation
UUID=4c29bdfd-2420-4a9b-a0d0-6016f1e5802d / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=1756a2bb-9e45-44fa-b7a4-8f933225e18c /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=70D6-1701 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda13 during installation
UUID=cdb51f8b-c420-41e8-8ae8-55d6795f077e none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
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