Mac-Mini Gentoo revisited

I got the Mac-Mini back. This time round I skipped the whole "Install 10.5 and use boot camp to make a partition" and went straight for the Gentoo i386 disk.

mini1 ~ # fdisk /dev/sda

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

... snip ...

mini1 ~ # parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 1.9.0
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
                                                                
(parted) unit b                                                           
(parted) p                                                                
Model: ATA FUJITSU MHV2060B (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 60011642880B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start         End           Size          File system  Name                  Flags
 1      20480B        209735679B    209715200B    fat32        EFI system partition  boot
 2      209735680B    1000000511B   790264832B    ext2
 3      1000000512B   10000000511B  9000000000B   ext3
 4      10000000512B  60011625983B  50011625472B  ext3

(parted)

Then I booted using the rEFIt iso disk, it fiddled with the MBR and now it boots.

# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda2               /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime  1 2
/dev/sda3               /               ext3            noatime         0 1
/dev/sda4               /mnt/Store      ext3            noatime         0 1
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,ro       0 0

# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda3

Wheeee all done, got X, got ALSA, got mplayer

I have to make it do i915 as a module for Xorg, had to add mesa for the dri to work.

But work it does !!