2011/12/6 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. It does not seem to matter if you use boot >> loaders such as reFit and Bootcamp or remove MacOS completely and try >> to boot. Apparently, if you somehow (how to use it is not very clear >> from the "Common F16 bugs" page, >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Incorrect_partition_type_assigned_to_.2Fboot_partition_on_GPT-labelled_disks) >> use the nogpt kernel parameter you might be able to install F16. >> >> There are a couple of bugs open regarding this, >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752548 and >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746895 are two examples. >> >> It seems like the boot procedure has changed quite a bit from F15 to >> F16, and not just the GRUB2 change. I am sure these were changed for >> the best of reasons, but it is very frustrating to not be able to use >> F16 on hardware that could run previous Fedoras very well. Also, there >> are a lot of Macs out in the wild, and by excluding them we shut out a >> large amount of (possible users). >> >> So what could be done about this? Would it be enough to have a visible >> nopgt option in Anaconda? Should we do special "Boot test days"? Or is >> something else needed? > > So, revisiting this: right now it seems like the aim for F17 is to focus > on native EFI boot and install on Mac, not installation using BIOS > compatibility mode. We should aim to fix any remaining issues with > booting Macs via EFI and test throughout F17 cycle to ensure it works. > Will it be possible to do dualboot (MacOS + Fedora) and tripleboot (MacOS + Windows + Fedora) with this method? /Andreas > 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
