F17 Alpha on Macbook Pro boot issues

[RT User]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 12:11 +0530, RT User wrote:
> > Adam,
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >         On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 00:16 +0530, RT User wrote:
> >         > Hello!
> >         >
> >         > One of my most anticipated features of F17 is the native
> >         install on
> >         > Mac.
> >         >
> >         > I have a Late 2011 MBP with Lion and refit.  I booted F17
> >         off of a
> >         > USB. I get past the grub menu and couple of seconds into
> >         plymouth boot
> >         > fails by dropping me into dracut shell.
> >         >
> >         > I see
> >         >
> >         > <snip>
> >         > dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
> >         > dracut
> >         Warning: /disk/by-label/Fedora-17-Alpha-x86_64-Live-Desk does
> >         > not exist
> >         > dracut Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist
> >         >
> >         > Dropping to debug shell
> >         > </snip>
> >         >
> >         > Anything I need to get past this error?
> >
> >
> >         How exactly did you write the image to USB? it's important to
> >         know.
> >         Thanks!
> >
> >
> >  I wrote the ISO using unetbootin on OS X.  Should I use dd instead?
>
> dd or livecd-iso-to-disk , please, yeah. it's difficult enough trying to
> keep track of the 'officially supported' methods for writing to USB and
> make sure those work, anything third party is pretty much 'doctor, it
> hurts' territory - you're welcome to try, but you're kind of on your own
> if you do.
>
> at present, if you dd a DVD or netinst image to USB, it'll be bootable
> via EFI. if you dd a live image to USB it won't be. (This is dumb, we
> know...it's this way because the generation process for the
> 'traditional' images and the generation process for the live images is
> pretty different, so they wound up diverging). if you use
> livecd-iso-to-disk , as long as you pass the --efi parameter, *any*
> image should be EFI bootable. but remember to pass --efi , and please
> use the very latest livecd-tools from updates-testing : 17.7-1.fc17 for
> F17, 16.11-1.fc16 for F16, and 15.12-1.fc15 for F15. There are known
> bugs with writing F17 images with any earlier version.
>
>
Thanks! will test later today and report back

Steve
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