macbook pro 5,1 freezing after boot

syamajala · 2010-06-29 20:36:31

I installed arch on macbook pro 5,1 and it boots, but seems to freeze at waiting for udev uevents to be processed. I was able to get it to boot with acpi=off, but it acpi used to work in the past. Does anyone know how to get it working again, or should I just downgrade the kernel?

syamajala · 2010-06-30 13:33:46

I tried my arch install cd. It uses kernel 2.6.33 and boots fine with acpi. I figured out that without acpi, smp is disabled, and it only brings up 1 core. I think this might be an upstream problem. I'll try 2.6.35-rc3 and then lkml or the kernel bugtracker.

wsj24rei · 2010-07-02 06:03:11

okay. thanks for the info guys. it is very much appreciated.

syamajala · 2010-07-02 14:04:52

Here is the link to the bug report https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16318

pingpong · 2011-07-24 21:53:59

I saw the ticket closed due to INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Just wonder if there what's the latest situation on this (after a year since the last post). I recently tried to install Arch on a MacBook Pro 5.1, got the exact same problem.
It boots into Kernel 2.6.34 only if acpi=off is put to the kernel line. Any help?

litemotiv · 2011-07-24 22:01:01

pingpong, we are on kernel 2.6.39 now, close to 3.0. You should probably first test with the latest kernel to see how that works for you.

pingpong · 2011-07-25 00:22:32

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I forgot to mention, I did test with the latest kernel (2.6.39). In fact, I have tested with several ways to install Arch, like net-install (which gives me the current kernel after installation) and even archboot 2011.05. None of them get me pass UDev uevents. I looked around on the internet and one old post report a successful install using the installing CD instead of netinstall. So I suspected it's the newer kernel giving us troubles on Mac After installing from CD (not netinstall) one boots into the system 2.6.33 but then ran into the same problem after pacman -Syu (which upgraded the kernel only to 2.6.34) but adding apci=off let the system boots again.

Unfortunately, I don't know even to carry the investigation further. But I think it's important for the community to look into this. Mac is a popular platform.
I will have this Mac (MacBook Pro 5.1) on my disposal for little while and be willing to do some more test on it. If anyone has suggestion, I'm more that willing to try.

litemotiv · 2011-07-25 09:00:13

I used a MBP 5,5 for about a year without problems, now a 3,2. I'm not sure how the hardware of the 5,1 is different though.

Two questions:

- Did you disable KMS by appending "nomodeset" to the kernel line in grub?
- Can you boot it normally with the fallback kernel?

pingpong · 2011-07-25 15:41:44

Taking hints from this post: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/arch-l … oting.html, I resolved the booting problem.

The what's the new kernel doesn't like about this the nvidia video card. So by booting with acpi=off after installation then following the instructions on
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

to install the nvidia driver. The system still boots after removing "acpi=off" from grub.cfg. Sweet!

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#1 2010-06-29 20:36:31

macbook pro 5,1 freezing after boot

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