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

[Andreas Tunek]

Has there been any more tests getting F17 to boot on macs, with or without
refit? I would love to test, but if macs are not any target hardware for
fedora it would be pretty pointless.

/Andreas
On Dec 27, 2011 4:09 AM, "Chris Murphy" <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:

>
> On Dec 26, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Todd V Orvieto wrote:
>
> > Chris,
> >  I got really frustrated with triple boot on Max OS X Lion.  At one
> point I had it working on snow leopard pretty well.
>
> A possible problem with Lion is not technically with Lion itself. When
> 10.7 is installed, there is an additional partition created called Recovery
> HD, which contains a minimal system for booting a limited environment.
> Because of this, out of the gate you have at least three partitions: sda1,
> sda2, sda3. You can only add one more partition and have parity with a
> hybrid MBR and I'll bet gptsync does this incorrectly. And there are also
> 2.2TB concerns because of course the Windows partition can't go beyond the
> 2.2TB limit. So how the MBR should look in a triple boot, is unique. I've
> done probably 2-3 dozen installs and figured out one that's ideal for less
> than 2.2TB disks, and one or two that are tolerable, but still gross lies,
> for 2.2TB+ drives.
>
> It also requires giving up on the Windows bootloader and use GRUB2 for
> bootloading both Windows and Fedora.
>
> > My buddy who works for Apple has told me that the installation of refit
> voids the warranty and they have refused to fix computers under warranty
> with refit installed.
>
> Well that's completely bogus. I've heard this myth before, I don't know
> where it started. I think some traveling support crew probably were
> misinformed that rEFIt is an EFI firmware replacement, and if it were true
> that people were flashing Apple's firmware with some 3rd party firmware,
> they'd be able to void warranties. But rEFIt is not firmware, it's a set of
> EFI applications and drivers. So whoever says this is completely full of
> crap and doesn't know what they're talking about.
>
>
> >  I think this is bummer because the Apple hardware is good, it makes no
> sense why Apple cares.
>
> Apple doesn't care to support foreign OS's.
>
>
> Chris Murphy
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