I'd like to run FC4 on a MacMini, but can't get there from here. FC4t1 was dead-on-arrival because the install CD/DVD would not boot ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151234 ). Now FC4t2 cannot be trusted to partition the harddrive ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154479 ). Multibooting Mac OS X is a requirement, but neither DiskDruid nor fdisk recognizes the existing partitions as shipped by Apple [Ubuntu-5.04 fdisk does] so I'm very leery.
If anyone has set up FC4t2 successfully to multiboot with Mac OS X, (using no external drives or additional Mac hardware) then please share your method and experiences. Thanks.
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:55 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
I'd like to run FC4 on a MacMini, but can't get there from here. FC4t1 was dead-on-arrival because the install CD/DVD would not boot ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151234 ). Now FC4t2 cannot be trusted to partition the harddrive ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154479 ). Multibooting Mac OS X is a requirement, but neither DiskDruid nor fdisk recognizes the existing partitions as shipped by Apple [Ubuntu-5.04 fdisk does] so I'm very leery.
If anyone has set up FC4t2 successfully to multiboot with Mac OS X, (using no external drives or additional Mac hardware) then please share your method and experiences. Thanks.
You should be able to just edit yaboot.conf as appropriate afterwards - it's nothing to do with the partitioning tool, just how we configure the bootloader.
Paul
If anyone has set up FC4t2 successfully to multiboot with Mac OS X,
You should be able to just edit yaboot.conf as appropriate afterwards -
Aha, knowing to look at /etc/yaboot.conf is the essential key that was not mentioned anywhere.
I suggest that the existence of an hfs+ partition should cause the "macosx=/dev/hdaX" and "brokenmacosx" lines to be added to yaboot.conf, just like the existence of a bootable FAT partition on x86 causes an "other; chainloader +1" entry in grub.conf. Oh, and change the "delay=5" to "delay=15" for multibooting Fedora Core and MacOS X. Many DDC monitors cannot wakeup from DPMS sleep and come to full brightness in 5 seconds, which means that the multibooting choice will be missed. [I'll make sure bugzilla sees this.]
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 10:37 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
If anyone has set up FC4t2 successfully to multiboot with Mac OS X,
You should be able to just edit yaboot.conf as appropriate afterwards -
Aha, knowing to look at /etc/yaboot.conf is the essential key that was not mentioned anywhere.
I suggest that the existence of an hfs+ partition should cause the "macosx=/dev/hdaX" and "brokenmacosx" lines to be added to yaboot.conf,
That's the plan, ditto for os9 detection.
Paul
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:55 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
I'd like to run FC4 on a MacMini, but can't get there from here. FC4t1 was dead-on-arrival because the install CD/DVD would not boot ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151234 ).
Try FC4t2. I think the CD boots. Otherwise do it via nfs and boot.iso
Now FC4t2 cannot be trusted to partition the harddrive ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154479 ).
That's just the tool, fdisk not reporting it. Linux/ppc distros tend to include pdisk actually
The partitioning tool actually "just works". Try "parted /dev/hda print"
Multibooting Mac OS X is a requirement, but neither DiskDruid nor fdisk recognizes the existing partitions as shipped by Apple [Ubuntu-5.04 fdisk does] so I'm very leery.
Well, it would help if you had a free partition. Currently you don't. We don't resize hfs+ partitions for you
If anyone has set up FC4t2 successfully to multiboot with Mac OS X, (using no external drives or additional Mac hardware) then please share your method and experiences. Thanks.
http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html
I just set it up yesterday and my dual-boot experience works. Save for the fact that yaboot.conf needs macosx=/dev/hdaX in it
Thanks for the pointer. Eventually I booted from Apple DVD and used Apple Disk Utility to repartition the harddrive into "3 partitions" (27MB hfs+ Journaled, 1GB free [for swap], and 11GB free [for FC4 root]). Then I fresh-installed Mac OS X, got Apple's current updates, then fresh-installed FC4t2. DiskDruid said there was only 1 Apple_Free partition of 12GB. I kept going, and took the required detour when DiskDruid said I had to have an Apple_Bootstrap partition. Installing FC4t2 succeeded; total time (Apple Disk Util repartition, Mac OS X install, Mac OS X update, FC4t2 install) was about 2.5 hours, almost evenly split between Apple and Fedora.
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