F21 install experience on iMac (5K retina)

[Andreas Tunek]

2015-01-26 21:32 GMT+01:00 Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Problems
>>
>> Linux can't find the correct resolution of the screen, see
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184204
>
> Not sure about that.
>

Um, what do you mean? Gnome at least detects it as a 3840x 2160
display. Maybe I should add that to the bug report?


>>
>> The computer seems to boot into Linux as default, it would have been
>> nice if you could choose that somehow.
>
> If you hold the option key during the boot chime, you'll get the
> option to boot OS X. Then you can go to System Preferences > Startup
> panel, and choose OS X to boot by default again. And then to boot
> Fedora, you can use the option key at boot chime.
>
> I haven't really figured out the logic, but different Mac models and
> firmware versions have different priorities for NVRAM boot entries vs
> a hint in the HFS+ volume header for which volume to boot by default.
> Therefore using efibootmgr -n or  -O may or may not work on your
> particular model; but the OS X Startup panel appears to alter
> something on disk and has been more reliable for me for setting
> default boot OS.
>

Thanks, I'll try that!

/Andreas

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