F17 Alpha on Macbook Pro boot issues

RT User myrtuser at gmail.com
Sun Mar 4 11:25:59 UTC 2012


Jason,

My responses inline ..

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Jason Montleon <jmontleo at redhat.com> wrote:

> It looks like someone already filed a bug for this same error:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748209
>


Thank you! I reported the bug via the abrt tool and it did not help me
search a duplicate bug.



> Did you mount the EFI partition (~200MB FAT partition) under /boot/efi?
>
>
No I did not.  I do apologize I wasn't aware for EFI systems this was
required.  After I created the partition, the installation was smooth.



> This will be necessary so that the efi images and grub config can get
> written to the partition.
>

Wish I had known earlier :)


> I have not dual booted from a single disk, but I have done so with Fedora
> installed to an external and it went pretty smoothly. GRUB2 even went so
> far as to create menu options for booting to Mac OS X (though I admittedly
> have not tried these.)
>

My Fedora 16 seem to have taken over.  I was intending it to be dual boot.


>
> If you can get it working, you may have good luck blessing the grub2 boot
> image so you can select either Linux or OS X from the grub nenu without
> having to flip flop rebooting using the Mac Utility or remembering to hold
> the alt key when you reboot (though refit will probably fill the same roll
> - incidentally you probably don't need refit if you're just dual booting
> Fedora and OS X)
>


I haven't tried this yet.  I'm really happy with my Fedora install that I
do not see the need for booting into OS X.


>
> Have a look at this if you have some time. It was written for F16, but I
> have been playing with F17 and it all more or less still works the same.
>
> http://fedorasolved.org/Members/jmontleon/installing-fedora-16-on-macbooks-using-grub2-efi
> --
>


Trust me, I didn't have to mess with any of the stuff above. My
installation worked out of the box except for the /boot/efi partition.

Thanks so much for your help!

Cheers,
Steve
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