On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Zoltan Kota <zoltank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried to follow the discussions related to Fedora and Apple > hardware in these lists. Some days ago I decided to try to install F17 > on my Macbook Pro. Maybe it is useful to share my experiences. > > The initial state was: > Apple Macbook Pro 3.1, a Triple-boot system with Mac OSX, WindowsXP, > Fedora 14, booting through ReFit > For Fedora I had a separate 'root', 'swap' and 'home' partitiion. > My plan was to do a fresh installation on the existing root partition > keeping the home partition as is. > The istallation media was F17 i386 DVD. > > 1. The system booted from DVD correctly, graphical setup was OK. > 2. At selecting partitions I choose custom setup, and selected my > existing /, swap, and /home partitions for installation. > At this point I had to stop, because setup needed a bios boot > partition that I didn'h have. > 3. As I didn't want to mess up my partitions completely / to have more > control, I manipulated my partition table out of the graphical setup. > I used gdisk in command line from the DVD. I removed my linux root > partition and created a 1MB Bios boot partition and a new root > partition. The other partitions were not touched. With gdisk I could > set the hybrid MBR as well. > 4. Starting setup again, selecting custom disk layout with grub > installed on the boot partition, the installation was OK. > 5. However the hybrid MBR of the disk was cleared. So I had to setup > again the hybrid MBR with gdisk. After that I could boot all the 3 > systems with ReFit. (ReFit now shows an extra starting icon however, > that seems to start windows or fedora depending on which one was > booted last time. I don't know where comes this from.) > But finally I have bootable Fedora 17 system, hurrah. And my existing > other OS-es survived. :-) > > I think Soory, accidentally I sent it before I could finish my email. So, I think would be nice to try F17_x86_64 as well? I have never tried EFI installation of fedora before. Is it possible to install grub efi in the root/boot partition during setup? ReFit should find it as I know. Zoltan -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
