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

[Chris Murphy]

On Apr 24, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> (Note: *DO NOT* run the installer that is on this image. You'll probably 
> end up with a broken grub. Should be fixed soon)
> 
> I've put a test image up at 
> http://mjg59.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-Mac-EFI-test.iso - this should work 
> if burned to a CD or dded to a USB stick. Insert, hold down alt, select 
> the Fedora logo. Possible outcomes:
> 
> 1) Complete failure. I've fixed all the cases I know of that could cause 
> this, but there may still be possibilities. Please file a bug.
> 2) Boots, but graphics don't work. Please try with nomodeset as a kernel 
> option, then file a bug.
> 3) Success. Hurrah! Do nothing more.

2008 MacBook Pro 4,1 results:
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DVD: Three EFI Boot options, one has a Fedora logo. All drop me to a GRUB 0.97 prompt.

USB stick: Initramfs unpacking failed: broken padding. Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.

Each reproducible 3x.
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2011 MacBook Pro 8,2 results:
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DVD: Two EFI Boot options, one has a Fedora logo. Both drop me to a GRUB 0.97 prompt.

USB stick: Video problem as described in Bug 765954, however it only goes half way down and there's no further USB activity. Switching to console and issuing reboot commands doesn't work (like it does with a livecd-iso-to-disk produced stick), so I'm thinking probably a kernel panic here too but I can't tell why.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765954


Also each reproducible 3x.
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How many bug reports do you want? One for all, one for each model, one for each result? And against what components?


Chris Murphy