Jason, My responses inline ..
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Jason Montleon <jmont...@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
-- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
