[SoaS] Booting Fedora live USB on MacBookPro

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue Nov 17 22:19:51 UTC 2009


On 11/17/2009 04:17 PM, Stewart Adam wrote:
> On 2009/11/16 10:56 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
>> On 11/11/2009 01:30 AM, Stewart Adam wrote:
>>> On 2009/11/10 5:41 PM, Peter Jones wrote:
>>>> On 11/10/2009 05:37 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> My MacBook is a 4,1. Will it work on my machine?
>>>>
>>>> A 64-bit EFI image should work on a MacBook4,1 .  A 32-bit EFI image
>>>> won't.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If the silver MBP is also a 4,1 model, there may be complications...
>>> There are some video initialization problems [1] when booting EFI
>>> kernels.
>>>
>>> Stewart
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496134
>>
>> Yeah.  If somebody had one of these machines at FudCon in Toronto, I
>> could probably knock this out in relatively short time.
> 
> I know that it can be harder to debug if you're not at the machine, but
> if I can provide you with any info I'll be happy to do so - just let me
> know what I need to do.

There's nothing to /debug/.  Somebody needs to figure out where the framebuffer
is and what it's dimensions are, and then it needs to be added to the table.

-- 
        Peter




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