Bug 754281

Summary: Boot fails on Apple hardware with EFI
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Matt Hirsch <matthew.hirsch>
Component: syslinuxAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: awilliam, pjones, the.ridikulus.rat
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Description Matt Hirsch 2011-11-15 23:18:08 UTC
Description of problem:

Booting Fedora x86_64 media on a Intel Mac Pro fails. I have attempted to boot the following types of media on an Intel MacPro2,1:

On a DVD:
Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.iso
On a CD:
boot.iso from /images on a mirror, retrieved today.

On a USB disk:
efiboot.img
efidisk.img

In all cases, I get the following message:

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1.
2.

Select CD-ROM Boot Type :
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No keyboard input is available at this menu, so I have to reboot the system using a long-press of the power button.

I have tried booting both using rEFIt, (attempting to load a BIOS boot image), and using the option key to select the CD or USB disk directly.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot any of the above media on a MacPro2,1

Additional info:
This seems like a recurrence of bug: 527443

There is another open bug about F16 not booting on mac: 751147. I have filed a new one, since that seems like a video problem, and this occurs before the kernel is loaded.

Comment 1 Matt Hirsch 2011-11-15 23:21:53 UTC
Here is a link to the old bug, since I can't update the See Also field.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527443

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2011-12-07 18:31:36 UTC
pjones: does your comment from 527443:

"This is a firmware bug in the CSM on your platform, and there's nothing we can
do about it while still supporting UEFI on systems with working firmware. #c21
has a workaround."

apply to this case too?



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