Sunday, November 12, 2006

war journal 013 - gentoo on parallels for mac

previously, i posted (also here: the case of parallels 2.1 beta and the crashing iMac and Ubuntu on OS X that i have had a heck of a time trying to get gentoo to work on parallels for the mac. its been a couple of months now, and i realize that i haven't posted the resolution to that problem.

it was quite simple really, and i banged by head several times after realizing how simple the answer was:
gentoo noapic acpi=off
and gentoo live cd (i used 2006.0) would boot properly and using the grp packages (i wanted to get up and running very quickly) a gentoo system was live on my core duo iMac.