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spira_mirabilis

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Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

I'd like to install Arch on a MacBook Pro 2017. I plug the USB stick, power on the Mac, select the USB, grub appears, enter and I get stuck on a black screen. Same behaviour with Antergos and Fedora. I just tried with Debian and it works. Do you have any clue on what might be going on here?

WorMzy

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

Try booting with nomodeset

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … figuration

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spira_mirabilis

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

I get the same behaviour with nomodeset.

handella

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

Have a look at this: Arch on Macbook Pro. I'm not shure, if it is a good idea to run Arch on a Macbook Pro 2017...

Last edited by handella (2018-12-28 16:46:51)

spira_mirabilis

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

I found out that I can't edit the boot menu (ctrl - x just writes the x, F10 does nothing and by pressing enter it boots, but with the original configuration). How can I edit the ISO in order to edit the boot menu configuration accordingly?

WorMzy

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

You seem to be fixated on grub commands. As my earlier link tells you, the Arch installation ISO doesn't use it. Depending on what mode you are booting in, it will be either syslinux or systemd-boot.

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spira_mirabilis

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

Oops, my bad. Still, booting with nomodeset doesn't fix my problem.

respiranto

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

Since booting debian works, it might be worth comparing the boot parameters.

spira_mirabilis

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

arch:

initrd=/arch/boot/intel_ucode.img initrd=/arch/boot/amd_ucode.img initrd=/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201812

debian:

linux /linux vga=788 --- quiet
initrd /initrd.gz

respiranto

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Re: Arch on MacBook Pro 2017

I do not know whether the vga option is likely to make a difference, the quiet one (which is passed to init) probably does not.
I'd anyways try adding both, i.e.

initrd=/arch/boot/intel_ucode.img initrd=/arch/boot/amd_ucode.img initrd=/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201812 vga=788 --- quiet