On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 20:32 +0100, Andreas Tunek wrote: > >> 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? If you do an EFI install of Windows (as I believe at least Win7 is capable of), I'd say almost certainly 'yes'. If you want to use the hybrid MBR thingy, which as I understand it allows OS X (and hopefully Fedora) to see the disk as a GPT disk and Windows to see it as an MBR disk, and do a BIOS emulation install of Windows alongside EFI installs of OS X and Fedora...er, the answer I guess is 'I really don't know'. Someone else may. I don't know the status of this at present and I don't know if, if it doesn't work right now, we can do anything to fix it. (I'm considering buying a cheap second-hand Mac just so I can poke at this mess personally...) -- 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
