On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 16:36 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Following applies to a 2008, Macbook Pro 4,1 > > 1. > Used livecd-tools-17.6-1.fc17 to successfully create an EFI bootable USB stick of Fedora-17-Alpha-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso. > > 2. > Due to this bug: EFI boot fails on Macs with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751147 > > I add 'nomodeset' kernel parameter. I know of no work around to get a GUI on this hardware. But it does boot kernel and most services. > > 3. > tty1 hangs at "Started Display Manager" > tty2 is functional, not sure how to get any information on what's up with tty1. Normally what I'm used to with EFI boot and nomodeset is X can't actually startup, but the rest of the services load, and I end up at a prompt. > > 4. > Out of 5 boot attempts, I get to a usable tty2 console and can reboot thrice. > > Twice, I get a hang right after GRUB loads either the kernel or initrd, the GRUB splash screen is present with no text. The machine has hung and I have to hold the power button to shut down. > > So on this hardware I'd say GRUB is marginally reliable. I suppose it might be interesting to see if grub2-efi works any better... > 5. > At reboot/poweroff time, there's a LOT of extra "garbage" information being produced on-screen compared to F16. It goes by quick enough and isn't logged, so I'm not sure if it's important. But I do get a reboot, albeit with about a 1 minute delay over F16. I suspect 'yum install plymouth' may help with that. In F16, dracut required plymouth, and dracut is in @core, so plymouth got pulled into any install. In F17, dracut doesn't require plymouth any more, and this is desired. So for Alpha I stuck plymouth into comps, but I only put it into @base, not @core. Minimal installations don't install @base, they install @core. If you do a text mode installation, you get a minimal install, hence no plymouth. I'm not entirely sure what we want to do about this for Beta - whether we want to put plymouth in @core, or what. -- 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
