installing F-15 on Mac

I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying 
linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? 
The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far 
more precise.

GW.

[Jurgen Kramer]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 15:15 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>  On 07/01/2011 02:48 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
>  > On 07/01/2011 08:37 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>  >> On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
>  >>> I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying
>  >>> linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot?
>  >>> The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far
>  >>> more precise.
>  >>>
>  >>> GW.
>  >> I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have
>  >> not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.
>  >>
>  >> I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able
>  >> to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:
>  >>
>  >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503149
>  >   So, in a word, no... it is not a seemless, flawless, noobie-friendly, 
>  > happy puppies dancing with butterflies endeavour with my friend not at 
>  > risk of losing data and/or his OSX installation. ;-)
>  >
>  > Why is it so difficult? Would this be a bios related restriction?\ 
I am running F15 on my 2010 macbook air without problems. Even the
wireless works with the staging drivers. I have to use the binary nvidia
driver as the mba display needs dithering. 
I gave up on running F15 on the 2011 imac because after installation I
could not get it to boot properly. That probably due to the linux
partitions being out of reach for legacy grub. It runs just fine from
the live CD.

Currently EFI booting on mac seems to be a hit and miss, it does not
work for my on either the mba as the imac.

Moral of the story is with some careful disk partitioning and some work
you should be able to run F15 on a mac.

Jurgen

[Alexander Volovics]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 07:55:00AM -0400, Gary Waters wrote:

>  I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in
> trying 
>  linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? 
>  The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far 
>  more precise. 
If you have not seen this documentation already you might find
it instructive:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation

Alexander

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On 07/01/2011 02:48 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
>  On 07/01/2011 08:37 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> > On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
> >> I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying
> >> linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot?
> >> The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far
> >> more precise.
> >>
> >> GW.
> > I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have
> > not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.
> >
> > I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able
> > to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503149
>    So, in a word, no... it is not a seemless, flawless, noobie-friendly, 
>  happy puppies dancing with butterflies endeavour with my friend not at 
>  risk of losing data and/or his OSX installation. ;-)
>
>  Why is it so difficult? Would this be a bios related restriction?\
>
>  GW 
No, it is more like walking through a dinosaur-infested swamp after
midnight without a flashlight.

To me, the underlying problem seems to be the Macs firmware. Among other
things, I had to run a live version and manually set up the harddrives
from the command line in order to get them working, before doing the
main install (note that this was an old Mac from 2005, the firmware
might have changed considerably with newer models). However, from what I
remember, things worked rather fine after that...I can remember having
problem with heat, fans and battery time, but that might not be an issue
that is limited to the Mac (in fact, there is a special kernel module
adapted to Apple machines).

On 07/01/2011 08:37 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>  On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
> > I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying
> > linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot?
> > The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far
> > more precise.
> >
> > GW.
>
>  I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have
>  not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.
>
>  I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able
>  to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503149 
  So, in a word, no... it is not a seemless, flawless, noobie-friendly, 
happy puppies dancing with butterflies endeavour with my friend not at 
risk of losing data and/or his OSX installation. ;-)

Why is it so difficult? Would this be a bios related restriction?\

GW

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
>  I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in
> trying 
>  linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot? 
>  The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far 
>  more precise.
>
>  GW. 
I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have
not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.

I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able
to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503149