On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 19:48 +0100, Andreas Tunek wrote: > 2011/12/2 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 12:08 +0100, Andreas Tunek wrote: > >> As you all might know, it is currently impossible to boot the default > >> install of F16 on Macs. > > > > I'm not entirely sure that's correct. We had several reports of > > successful EFI installs of F16 in the relevant bug reports at RC stage. > > > > What are you basing this apparently authoritative declaration on? > > -- > > As far as I know, you can only install if you use the nopgt kernel > parameter or change the partitions after the install. I could of > course be wrong, but nothing I found contradicted these facts. > > On my own iMac, when I tried to do preupgrade from the working F15 to > F16 the system would not boot into F16. I the tried to install the > live CD and I could not get that to boot either. I tried both using > reFit and using the whole disk. > > Has anyone managed to install F16 on a Mac without using any extra > options such as nopgt or changing partion flags after install? Probably the guy who has the best handle on it is Chris Murphy, though I don't know if he follows this list. He did quite a lot of testing of F16 on Macs and seems to have the best understanding of how exactly Apple's Very Very Special firmware works. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752548#c4 . -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
