How can we make F17 be able to boot on Macs (with or without reFit)

[Andreas Tunek]

2011/12/6 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
> 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

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