![]() That does actually work on Apples, but then you run into the earlier point I mentioned. The biggest difference between Apple hardware and anyone else is that we'd normally put the bootloader in a FAT partition that's shared with any other installed operating systems. In the latter case there'll be a nice Fedora logo. Put the install media in your system and then either select it in the OS X Startup Disk preferences menu and reboot, or reboot and hold down the alt key. Fedora 17 is the first Linux distribution to ship install media that will EFI boot a Mac when either written to optical media or a USB stick. More modern Macs will boot via the standard EFI mechanisms, but there's a range of problems that can be caused that way. ![]() If you're happy to use BIOS emulation than this can be done without too much misery, but you're then left with dealing with Apple's custom synchronised GPT/MBR. The other difficult bit has been actually starting the installer at all. There's then no straightforward way of resetting them, and you're left having to recover your installation. You can boot Linux easily enough by setting the standard EFI boot variables, but if you ever boot back into OS X it's easy to trigger deletion of those. The other is the integration with the boot environment. Apple launched Boot Camp shortly after they started shipping x86 Macs (and shortly after I'd got Ubuntu running on one for the first time) but the focus of Boot Camp has always been to be good enough to boot Windows and not much else. The first is that Apples are very much intended to be EFI first and BIOS second, while that's still not really true for commodity PC hardware. There's a few ways that Apple platforms differs from normal PC hardware. There's still a few shortcomings in this so it's not an announced or supported feature, but it's sufficient progress that it's worth writing about. What I did work on was improving our support for installation on x86 Apple hardware. It's got a bunch of new features, none of which I contributed to in the slightest.
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