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

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Dec 2 20:02:54 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:54 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> On 12/02/2011 10:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> > I'm not entirely sure that's correct. We had several reports of
> > successful EFI installs of F16 in the relevant bug reports at RC stage.
> > 
> > What are you basing this apparently authoritative declaration on?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751147
> The Fedora 16 install DVD x86_64 won't even boot on my MacBookPro.

efibootmgr is entirely the wrong component for that bug, FWIW.
reassigning.
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