Re: Installed Fedora 11 on MacBook Pro fails to boot.

Henrik Frisk <frisk.h@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:34:46 +0200

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,
I've managed to install Fedora 11 on my MacBook Pro. I want a dual boot setup so I have a partition for the OSX, made smaller in order for the Fedora install to fit. For the partioning I followed the instructions found here:

http://www.cenolan.com/2009/06/installing-fedora-11-on-a-macbook/ 

Though the installer finished without complaints I can't boot from the newly installed system. I'm using rEFIt-0.13 to choose boot partition and it recognizes the Fedora 11 install but once chosen I end up with a prompt telling me there is "no bootable device - insert bootable disk and press any key."

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

best,

Henrik

Sorry, should have included more hardware info:

Model Name:	MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier:	MacBookPro5,2

  Processor Name:	Intel Core 2 Duo

  Processor Speed:	3.06 GHz

  Number Of Processors:	1

  Total Number Of Cores:	2

  L2 Cache:	6 MB

  Memory:	4 GB

  Bus Speed:	1.07 GHz

  Boot ROM Version:	MBP52.008E.B05

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:

  Chipset Model:	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

  Type:	Display

  Bus:	PCI

  VRAM (Total):	256 MB

  Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)

  Device ID:	0x0863

  Revision ID:	0x00b1

  ROM Revision:	3436

  gMux Version:	1.7.10

  Displays:
Color LCD:

  Resolution:	1920 x 1200

  Depth:	32-Bit Color

  Core Image:	Hardware Accelerated

  Main Display:	Yes

  Mirror:	Off

  Online:	Yes

  Quartz Extreme:	Supported

  Built-In:	Yes

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT:

  Chipset Model:	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

  Type:	Display

  Bus:	PCIe

  PCIe Lane Width:	x16

  VRAM (Total):	512 MB

  Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)

  Device ID:	0x0647

  Revision ID:	0x00a1

  ROM Revision:	3436

  gMux Version:	1.7.10

  Displays:

These are the partitions, the first two are for OSX:
Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)

 2         409640    488198167  Mac OS X HFS+
 3      488198168    488607767  EFI System (FAT)
 4      488607768    972550167  Basic Data
 5      972550168    976771095  Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1    976773167  ee  EFI Protective

MBR contents:
 Boot Code: None

Partition at LBA 40:
 Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
 File System: FAT32
 Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 409640:

 Boot Code: None
 File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
 Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 488198168:
 Boot Code: GRUB
 File System: ext3

 Listed in GPT as partition 3, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 488607768:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: ext3
 Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data

Partition at LBA 972550168:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: Unknown
 Listed in GPT as partition 5, type Basic Data

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