Has there been any more tests getting F17 to boot on macs, with or without refit? I would love to test, but if macs are not any target hardware for fedora it would be pretty pointless.
/Andreas On Dec 27, 2011 4:09 AM, "Chris Murphy" <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Todd V Orvieto wrote: > > > Chris, > > I got really frustrated with triple boot on Max OS X Lion. At one > point I had it working on snow leopard pretty well. > > A possible problem with Lion is not technically with Lion itself. When > 10.7 is installed, there is an additional partition created called Recovery > HD, which contains a minimal system for booting a limited environment. > Because of this, out of the gate you have at least three partitions: sda1, > sda2, sda3. You can only add one more partition and have parity with a > hybrid MBR and I'll bet gptsync does this incorrectly. And there are also > 2.2TB concerns because of course the Windows partition can't go beyond the > 2.2TB limit. So how the MBR should look in a triple boot, is unique. I've > done probably 2-3 dozen installs and figured out one that's ideal for less > than 2.2TB disks, and one or two that are tolerable, but still gross lies, > for 2.2TB+ drives. > > It also requires giving up on the Windows bootloader and use GRUB2 for > bootloading both Windows and Fedora. > > > My buddy who works for Apple has told me that the installation of refit > voids the warranty and they have refused to fix computers under warranty > with refit installed. > > Well that's completely bogus. I've heard this myth before, I don't know > where it started. I think some traveling support crew probably were > misinformed that rEFIt is an EFI firmware replacement, and if it were true > that people were flashing Apple's firmware with some 3rd party firmware, > they'd be able to void warranties. But rEFIt is not firmware, it's a set of > EFI applications and drivers. So whoever says this is completely full of > crap and doesn't know what they're talking about. > > > > I think this is bummer because the Apple hardware is good, it makes no > sense why Apple cares. > > Apple doesn't care to support foreign OS's. > > > Chris Murphy > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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