Hi,
I got a MacBook 8,1 with an Nvidia and a Intel 915 gpu. First I installed Kali to a USB stick to boot Kali from that stick. All was working well. Then I decided to install Kali to the hard disk of the Mac. With that the problems started. I used: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...on-Macbook-Pro
I had to disable the 'nouveau' driver so the Nvidia driver works. I did it with:
Code:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nouveau.modeset=0'
This worked well from the USB stick. But from the harddisk I get the following when I try to boot via EFI:
...
Code:
i915 0000:00:02.0: Invalid ROM contents
...
and nothing happens afterwards. So I tried to blacklist
Code:
modprobe.blacklist=i915
the i915 chip, because I found out when booted via 'super grub disk2' this module is also not loaded, but then X won't start anymore
On /dev/sda the EFI partition resides. When I boot I can see on the rEFInd screen the 'debian.efi' kernel which I tried to use to boot Kali.
Code:
root@macbook:~/foo/EFI# ls *
APPLE:
EXTENSIONS
debian:
grubx64.efi
root@macbook:~/foo/EFI#
grub.cfg
Code:
root@macbook:~/foo/EFI# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function load_video {
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,gpt5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5721740a-a08b-4b27-9bf6-4004e6f6a217
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
load_video
insmod gfxterm
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,gpt5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5721740a-a08b-4b27-9bf6-4004e6f6a217
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_US
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,gpt5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5721740a-a08b-4b27-9bf6-4004e6f6a217
insmod png
if background_image /usr/share/images/desktop-base/kali-grub.png; then
set color_normal=white/black
set color_highlight=black/white
else
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.14-kali1-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,gpt5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5721740a-a08b-4b27-9bf6-4004e6f6a217
echo 'Loading Linux 3.14-kali1-amd64 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.14-kali1-amd64 root=UUID=5721740a-a08b-4b27-9bf6-4004e6f6a217 ro initrd=/install/gtk/initrd.gz quiet nouveau.modeset=0 i915.lvds_channel_mode=2 i915.lvds.use.ssc=0
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.14-kali1-amd64
}
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.14-kali1-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,gpt5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5721740a-a08b-4b27-9bf6-4004e6f6a217
echo 'Loading Linux 3.14-kali1-amd64 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.14-kali1-amd64 root=UUID=5721740a-a08b-4b27-9bf6-4004e6f6a217 ro single initrd=/install/gtk/initrd.gz
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.14-kali1-amd64
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Mac OS X (32-bit) (on /dev/sda2)" --class osx --class darwin --class os {
insmod part_gpt
insmod hfsplus
set root='(hd0,gpt2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 431da5bf7f7230a8
load_video
set do_resume=0
if [ /var/vm/sleepimage -nt10 / ]; then
if xnu_resume /var/vm/sleepimage; then
set do_resume=1
fi
fi
if [ $do_resume = 0 ]; then
xnu_uuid 431da5bf7f7230a8 uuid
if [ -f /Extra/DSDT.aml ]; then
acpi -e /Extra/DSDT.aml
fi
xnu_kernel /mach_kernel boot-uuid=${uuid} rd=*uuid
if [ /System/Library/Extensions.mkext -nt /System/Library/Extensions ]; then
xnu_mkext /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
else
xnu_kextdir /System/Library/Extensions
fi
if [ -f /Extra/Extensions.mkext ]; then
xnu_mkext /Extra/Extensions.mkext
fi
if [ -d /Extra/Extensions ]; then
xnu_kextdir /Extra/Extensions
fi
if [ -f /Extra/devprop.bin ]; then
xnu_devprop_load /Extra/devprop.bin
fi
if [ -f /Extra/splash.jpg ]; then
insmod jpeg
xnu_splash /Extra/splash.jpg
fi
if [ -f /Extra/splash.png ]; then
insmod png
xnu_splash /Extra/splash.png
fi
if [ -f /Extra/splash.tga ]; then
insmod tga
xnu_splash /Extra/splash.tga
fi
fi
}
menuentry "Mac OS X (64-bit) (on /dev/sda2)" --class osx --class darwin --class os {
insmod part_gpt
insmod hfsplus
set root='(hd0,gpt2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 431da5bf7f7230a8
load_video
set do_resume=0
if [ /var/vm/sleepimage -nt10 / ]; then
if xnu_resume /var/vm/sleepimage; then
set do_resume=1
fi
fi
if [ $do_resume = 0 ]; then
xnu_uuid 431da5bf7f7230a8 uuid
if [ -f /Extra/DSDT.aml ]; then
acpi -e /Extra/DSDT.aml
fi
xnu_kernel64 /mach_kernel boot-uuid=${uuid} rd=*uuid
if [ /System/Library/Extensions.mkext -nt /System/Library/Extensions ]; then
xnu_mkext /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
else
xnu_kextdir /System/Library/Extensions
fi
if [ -f /Extra/Extensions.mkext ]; then
xnu_mkext /Extra/Extensions.mkext
fi
if [ -d /Extra/Extensions ]; then
xnu_kextdir /Extra/Extensions
fi
if [ -f /Extra/devprop.bin ]; then
xnu_devprop_load /Extra/devprop.bin
fi
if [ -f /Extra/splash.jpg ]; then
insmod jpeg
xnu_splash /Extra/splash.jpg
fi
if [ -f /Extra/splash.png ]; then
insmod png
xnu_splash /Extra/splash.png
fi
if [ -f /Extra/splash.tga ]; then
insmod tga
xnu_splash /Extra/splash.tga
fi
fi
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
root@macbook:~/foo/EFI#
So why does it boot via 'super grub disk2' and not when I use the EFI stuff? Why the Nvidia driver seems to not work when booted via EFI?
I'm happy about every answer.
BTW: tried to attach Xorg.0.log but get 'invalid file' even when compressed with bzip2
Xorg.0.log.txt