F17 Alpha on Macbook Pro boot issues

[RT User]

> >  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 Adam!

#  livecd-iso-to-disk --efi --format  ...

did the trick. However I rant into another issue.  The USB boots fine to
live environment.  Install to HDD proceeds until the last step and then
fails at bootloader install (i think).. I've filed the automated bugzilla
bug via the wizard.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799588

I'm not sure if there is anyway to continue to test or wait for Beta.

Steve
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