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

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 19:53 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:34:22PM +0100, Andreas Tunek wrote:
> > Den 28 februari 2012 18:22 skrev Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>:
> > > Yes, F17's current media should be pretty close to working.
> > >
> > 
> > Is this on native/basic Apple EFI, not reFit?
> 
> Yes. I'm mostly working on the netinst isos, and right now if you take 
> that and dd it onto a USB stick, then insert that and hold down alt on 
> boot, you'll get a Mac install. Unfortunately, alpha ended up getting 
> built with a grub that dies on any Macs that don't have built-in 
> ethernet, so you may have some problems with that. The alpha kernel also 
> has a bug that seems to trigger on Macs that results in incredible 
> slowness. But other than that! Fixed kernel is in the archive now, and 
> I've just commited a fix for the grub bug.

For the record, the incredible slowness bug is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=795050 and is
documented at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs#slooooooooooooooooow
(yes, I'm having some fun with the anchor names on the common bugs page,
and yes, my life is that tragic.)
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