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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: -------------- 1. 2. Select CD-ROM Boot Type : -------------- 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.
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
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? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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