GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1,1: failed to resolve partition

GRUB loads. ??

I add acpi=off to the boot options and boot. Otherwise, the screen goes black

with a '-' symbol at the top left corner and freezes.

So, after booting with acpi=off, the display shows the following lines (with timestamps on the??

left, but I had to manually transcribe so I left them off):

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.7 setup!??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.0 setup!??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: init 0000:00:1d.0 fail, -19????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.1 setup!??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: init 0000:00:1d.1 fail, -19????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.2 setup!??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: init 0000:00:1d.2 fail, -19????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.3 setup!??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: init 0000:00:1d.3 fail, -19????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

GC Warning: couldn't read /proc/stat????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL.????????????

loading kernel modules...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

ERROR: In procedure scm-error:????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

failed to resolve partition "31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833"????????????

And then it enters the Guile 2.2.4 prompt, but the keyboard and USB ports

are disabled at this stage, so I can't use it.

Apologies for the formatting errors in the previous email. Hopefully this message is cleaner.

GRUB loads.  

I add acpi=off to the boot options and boot.  Otherwise, the screen goes black

with a '-' symbol at the top left corner and freezes.

So, after booting with acpi=off, the display shows the following lines (with timestamps on the 

left, but I had to manually transcribe so I left them off):

%<---------------begin pasted text-----------------------

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.7 setup!

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.0 setup!

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: init 0000:00:1d.0 fail, -19

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.1 setup!

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: init 0000:00:1d.1 fail, -19

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.2 setup!

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: init 0000:00:1d.2 fail, -19

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.3 setup!

 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19

 GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread

 GC Warning: couldn't read /proc/stat

 Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile.

 Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL.

 

 loading kernel modules...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear...

 ERROR: In procedure scm-error:

 failed to resolve partition "31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833"

 %<-------------end paste---------------------------------

And then it enters the Guile 2.2.4 prompt, but the keyboard and USB ports

are disabled at this stage, so I can't use it.

Which kind of Macbook is this? At the top of

I see a big fat warning that 2016 and 2017 Macbooks do not yet work

well with Linux (the kernel, I suppose). Some of these issues may

have workarounds, but it would be good to know if they apply to your

Macbook version.

Regards,

Florian

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:02:29AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:

Please ignore this mail; I see you wrote Macbook1,1 in the subject

line.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:02:29AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:

Looks like it is the macbook 1,1. IIRC it has a pre-standardized EFI

implementation in 32-bit, don't remember if the laptop itself is 32- or

64- bit. Personally I would try it with Debian's special mac-installer

image first to see if that happens to boot up.

Does this laptop still have the original BIOS/EFI implementation or has

it perchance been replaced with libreboot?

--

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר

GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351

Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted

Do I understand correctly that this message appears when booting the

DVD, not the installed system?

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 03:32:06PM -0700, Calvin Heim wrote:

I cannot check right now if that is a legitimate partition id for the

i686 installer, but the installer source code in

gnu/system/install.scm should mount a partition with

(file-system-label "Guix_image"). You could check from another OS if

this partition label exists. You could also type in the recovery

Guile repl that opens:

(use-modules (ice-9 ftw))

(scandir "/dev/disk/by-id")

(scandir "/dev/disk/by-uuid")

(scandir "/dev/disk/by-partuuid")

and maybe:

,L bournish

cat /run/booted-system/etc/fstab

Regards,

Florian

Calvin Heim <frofroggy@gmail.com> writes:

It appears that our initrd lacks the drivers needed to access the DVD

drive.

I did some looking around for any recently updated tutorials on how to

install GNU/Linux on a MacBook 1,1, and the only recent success story I

found involved installing the rEFInd boot manager and using it to boot

to a USB installer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRai14ETKU

I would suggest something along those lines, since it would eliminate

the need to access the DVD drive from the initrd, which seems to be

where you're currently getting stuck.

Mark

On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 15:15 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:

edit: this grub shows the GuixSD logo in the background.

I have now removed the DVD and made a live USB with the guix-system-install-1.0.1.i686-linux.iso image.

Selecting the live usb at (what I believe to be) the EFI leads to the GuixSD LiveUSB image's GRUB, replete with the GUIXSD logo.

Setting the acpi=off boot option in the GuixSD LiveUSB image's GRUB leads to the same log that is 

pasted in my previous email, quoted above.  When I saw the identifier for the DVD drive again in the log,

I double-checked to make sure that my previous DVD was not in the drive. Nope, it's in a vinyl CD case.

David Stumph (the author of the video) is using lubuntu 16.04 in the video.  He attempted 18.10

but that resulted in a kernel panic.  I also see a kernel panic without setting acpi=off

in the grub boot options. In case someone in the future is searching for this issue, the kernel panic message is

Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout: Not all CPUs entered broadcast exception handler

Shutting down cpus with NMI

Kernel Offset : 0x8000000 from 0xc1000000 (relocation range: 0xc0000000-0xf7dfdfff)

Kernel rebooting in 30 seconds

resent to list

On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 12:12 +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:

32 bit.

Original EFI implementation.

resubmitted to list

On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 12:43 +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:

Yes.

From Trisquel 8,

$ ls /dev/disk/by-label

  GUIX_IMAGE

 

$ls /dev/disk/by-uuid

 1970-01-01-19-49-46-83

 [other stuff that doesn't change when the DVD ejects]

The contents of by-id and by-partuuid don't change when the install DVD is inserted,

so I assume that the contents of those directories are not related to the DVD.

The keyboard/usb ports do not function at this point in the boot,

despite working earlier in the boot during EFI and GRUB.  I

can see but not type in the recovery Guile repl.

resubmitted to list

On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 12:12 +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:

This particular Macbook type (part no. MA472LL/A) is untested with libreboot.

When I press e at GRUB to edit the boot configuration

I have noticed that the identifier

31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833

is the default value of the --root option on the LiveUSB.  I will look into

other possible values for this --root option. 

Hi Calvin,

Calvin Heim <frofroggy@gmail.com> writes:

Ubuntu 16.04 uses linux-4.4. We have linux-libre-4.4 (LTS) in Guix, but

our 1.0.1 installer images are based on linux-libre-5.1.

It might be worth using another machine to build a Guix installer image

that uses linux-libre-4.4, and trying that. Here's how: Section 3.9

(Building the Installation Image) describes how to build an installer

image, but instead of passing "gnu/system/install.scm", pass the name of

a modified version of that file, with (kernel linux-libre-4.4) added as

an additional field to 'installation-os'.

Mark

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

I should mention that you'll also need to add "--system=i686-linux" as

an option to "guix system disk-image", if the build system is 64-bit.

Mark

On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 19:37 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:

Is it important that it's another machine, and not this machine (Macbook1,1)?

This machine has Trisquel 8 currently running and functional.

I am confident that I can reinstall the Guix package manager on it

to build the suggested custom installation image.

Calvin Heim <frofroggy@gmail.com> writes:

Sure, that should be fine. Note that you'll also need to ensure that

the final system you install uses linux-libre-4.4, by adding (kernel

linux-libre-4.4) to your OS configuration. I'm not sure off-hand how to

do this when using the guided graphical installer, but maybe someone

else here knows. I've only ever done manual installations.

Mark

On +2019-08-15 15:05:57 -0700, Calvin Heim wrote:

I have found this incantation, and variants, e.g. filtering with grep, useful also:

$ stat -c %N /dev/disk/by-*/*

I have also encountered, IIRC, system versions where /disk/dev/by-* could present info

from stale cache information, so it might not show what e.g. the following might:

$ lsblk

$ lsblk -f

For your purposes, it might be worth trying asking for interesting

specifics (see lsblk -h for more), e.g.

$ lsblk -o mountpoint,name,size,fstype,label,partlabel,partuuid,uuid

Maybe that partuuid '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' might show up?

BTW, I think some older systems might not know how to look for partuuid,

(especially beyond the intial boot device?) and it could be worth trying

plain uuid instead. I suspected such a stiutation when I got

a not-found in the past, but did not diagnose it unambigously.

--8<--aside

BTW2, I am using refind to multiboot, and consider my shooting myself in the foot

(clobbering my efi partition with unintended grub install) as a kind of usability-bug,

which I am tempted to use as rationale for posting to this list (but not hijacking

this post further ;-) Would that be ok, or should I join guix-help as well? I am getting

more email traffic than I am used to :) ...

(I would like to mount a losetup file partition as a target for grub bootloader install,

and thereby capture initrds etc for manual (at first ;-) transfer into my refind efi vfat

file tree.)

--8<--aside--

Regards,

Bengt Richter

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Bengt Richter wrote:

I just checked for my working USB image and the

boot/grub/grub.cfg contains that line

bzImage --root=31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833 --system=/gnu/store/2j79kbvsxqq7lmzp3isnran1dpcp2z5j-system --load=/gnu/store/2j79kbvsxqq7lmzp3isnran1dpcp2z5j-system/boot quiet

but I cannot find that partition either. It seems to be created by

grub-mkrescue from make-iso9660-image, but I am not sure.

@Calvin: The manual contains this line in section _Building the

Installation Image_ (with Mark’s --system=i686-linux added):

guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660 --system=i686-linux \

gnu/system/install.scm

If you omit --file-system-type=iso9660, a USB image will still work

and I believe no --root=31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833 will be

inserted in GRUB.

Regards,

Florian

Hi Calvin,

could you try booting https://drive.google.com/open?id=15YTPS2jt1l3VMyE4LTbMCoy7DnEu7etvfrom DVD and later from USB Flash drive?

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:31:19 +0200

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:

Sorry, I didn't mean that one. Wrong architecture.

(guix master for i686)

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

I appreciate your effort to make life easier for Calvin, but in general

it seems like a bad security practice to post large unsigned disk images

and asking users to try them. A digital signature from you would

improve matters somewhat, but ideally there should also be a description

of how to reproduce this image.

It's also not good to be promoting Google Drive here, which requires

non-free Javascript. I'm aware that IceCat includes an extension to

allow Google Drive to at least partially work with LibreJS, but I was

unable to easily get it to work on my IceCat configuration where I use

NoScript instead.

Thoughts?

Mark

Hi Mark,

Hi Calvin,

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:26:50 -0400

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:

In general I agree. So I would suggest Calvin to try it and then later delete

the target drive.

I think it is unreasonable to expect users to build disk images of distributions

that don't work for them (it's nice if they do--but I don't like the shirking of

responsibility. It's a large time investment that has a big initial learning

curve and no guaranteed payoff).

In this case, the current Guix release image doesn't have one important fix

that directly affects Macbooks. Therefore, I built a current image of guix

master (without any extra changes--so it does contain the fix):

$ ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image -t iso9660 -s i686-linux gnu/system/install.scm

As I said in the past, let's please release Guix again soon so the fix is going

to users.

Also, I'm curious whether it improves the situation for Calvin (reading through

the thread, it might not--the failure is too late).

In the end there's a limit to how much time I'm going to spend on this.

Google drive works and is easy enough to use--if there's an alternative that

at least takes less effort than Calvin building the image on his own, I'll

use that.

sha256sum:

c09b3d75e15f46cf04605895402fcfeaf2d1ef92eeee2859c7e9fab49352debc guix-master-i686.iso

This mail is signed.

Hi Calvin,

Calvin Heim <frofroggy@gmail.com> writes:

Did you gave up, or eventually got it working?

Thanks,

Maxim

tags 37021 + moreinfo

quit

On Thu, 2022-06-09 at 21:11 -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:

I gave up because my DVD-drive stopped reading discs and instead makes gentle

tapping sounds and three short low-pitched buzzes for thirty seconds before

ejecting any inserted media. Happens at both the OEM bootloader stage and after

Trisquel is fully booted. It's not a Guix problem -- it's my personal hardware

problem now.

I expect that you may wish to close the issue to tidy up, and I accept that

outcome.

Thanks,

Calvin

resent, forgot to cc the list

Hi Calvin,

Calvin Heim <frofroggy@gmail.com> writes:

Ah, the joys of vintage hardware :-).

OK, thanks for the prompt reply!

I do hope you get to install Guix successfully in another adventure to

have :-).

Thanks,

Maxim