On 01/12/2013 07:50 PM, William Brown wrote: > >> >> Anyone has a clue please? >> >> As I'm suspecting it's using the BIOS emulation (how to check??), I'd >> like to try booting it as a "real EFI" OS but I have no clue of how >> that would work, and couldn't find much literature on this subject, at >> least not suitable for my level of skill.. any pointers appreciated, >> especially to work with Fedora 18! >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Sanne > > You should be able to plug in a fedora 18 usb installer, and from the > standard EFI boot menu (hold option while pressing power) you should see > the fedora logo and be able to install from it. This will give you efi > mode. Try to avoid booting from the system with a disc icon that says > "windows" (aka bios emulation). > > Most hardware in the most mode works, except for dual graphics switching > to the intel gpu. See this bug for details. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765954 Or, if all else fails, boot from the Live CD (or DVD) or net install & install that way. Unless it's specifically a Fedora issue that I'm unaware of[1], it should work (I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my wife's Macbook Pro using the same route without any problems at all). Cheers, Phil... [1] by this I mean with Fedora 18. I've only tested Spherical in a VM with CentOS as the host & am currently using RC3 on a HP server headless. -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
