Bug 235633
Summary: | FC6 only installation on an EFI based macboook pro fails to boot | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jussi Eloranta <eloranta> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6 | CC: | acathrow, triage, wtogami |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | bzcl34nup | ||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2008-05-06 19:29:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Jussi Eloranta
2007-04-08 17:11:23 UTC
Does grub actually support EFI - I thought this support was only slated for Grub2 - so in this case you're really using BIOS calls not EFI calls. My understanding was that we need the bios compatability layer for certain compents - eg. video card with 2d/3d accelleration. I think the X drivers call into the bios for video mode info If you want real EFI then I believe your options are eLILO or grub2. I don't think that gnu parted or other tools really understand what the Mac is doing. The MacBooks have a MBR/GPT hybrid partition table. The MBR is maintained for legacy compatability. So any tools we use have to keep them both in sync. If I use disktool in os X then it updates both partition tables. If I make changes to the GPT in Linux using parted then I've got a problem if I don't have the MBR in sync, since grub's going to use that. I've been installing using the regular anaconda install (fc6/rawhide/rhel5) but if I change the partition scheme then I need to sync up the tables. rEFIt from http://refit.sourceforge.net has the appropriate tools. gptsync will sync the changes made in MBR back to GPT. Calling gptsync after the partitioning in anacoda would be a good first step. You could always install rEFIt's mac boot loader which has a sync tool. You want to use MBR/GPT hybrid (and rEFIT) when you have MacOS X on the machine. That is what I did when I still had MacOS X installed (dual boot). After Apple messed up everything with a system update, I decided to get rid of OS X completely. So I cleaned the hard disk completely, and did a fresh Linux only install. If you have only Linux on the machine, where are you going to put rEFIT? In principle you could install it on the "extra partititon" but this takes some hacking (and partitioning by hand as FC6 installer does not create this). The Apple EFI bios seems to understand the old MBR partition tables (without GPT) in some sort of compatibility mode. During boot I get a "missing fold symbol briefly" but then it proceeds in loading grub. The only way I got the machine to boot was to use MBR (without GPT). BTW everything works (incluing X). I found a hint about this from one of the gentoo macbook pro howtos. If one wants to do EFI, eLILO/grub2 are probably to only options that would work (not supported by the installer). There seems to be another issue with grub and Mac Pro when using DVI output but that's another story (grub won't boot when DVI output is used but works OK if analog output is active). Forgot to mention that the Mac Pro problem occurs WITH rEFIT (+ MBR/GPT hybrid). gptsync should be getting called during the install Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks. If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6, please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting the change. Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we are following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again. And if you'd like to join the bug triage team to help make things better, check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |