installing F-15 on Mac

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On 07/01/2011 02:48 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
> On 07/01/2011 08:37 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>> On 07/01/2011 01:55 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
>>> I have a friend with an intel-based i-mac. He seems interested in trying
>>> linux. I assume fedora can be installed on Mac and it can also dualboot?
>>> The google info was a bit sketchy. Answers on this list tend to be far
>>> more precise.
>>>
>>> GW.
>> I tried doing this back in the day (2009), and it worked so-so. I have
>> not tried with more recent releases of Fedora.
>>
>> I opened a feature request on the issue, and I think you might be able
>> to find some helpful in the discussion on that page:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503149
>   So, in a word, no... it is not a seemless, flawless, noobie-friendly, 
> happy puppies dancing with butterflies endeavour with my friend not at 
> risk of losing data and/or his OSX installation. ;-)
>
> Why is it so difficult? Would this be a bios related restriction?\
>
> GW

No, it is more like walking through a dinosaur-infested swamp after
midnight without a flashlight.

To me, the underlying problem seems to be the Macs firmware. Among other
things, I had to run a live version and manually set up the harddrives
from the command line in order to get them working, before doing the
main install (note that this was an old Mac from 2005, the firmware
might have changed considerably with newer models). However, from what I
remember, things worked rather fine after that...I can remember having
problem with heat, fans and battery time, but that might not be an issue
that is limited to the Mac (in fact, there is a special kernel module
adapted to Apple machines).