On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:55 AM, kendell clark <coffeekingms(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't own a mac myself, but I'm writing here in case other
people do.
I'm a co developer of the sonar distribution, which is basically manjaro
with speech. When I downloaded fedora 23 this morning which I also use,
I noticed that it has on the USB drive an hfsplus partition with what
looks like a dummy copy of the mock kernel binary to trick apples into
thinking they're booting a copy of osx. Is there any way I can get a
hold of the source, or instructions on how to add this to sonar? I've
been going around and around in circles trying to help various people
with their macs and the mac isn't booting sonar. It's refusing to even
try and I know fedora works on a mac because I've used it. Sorry if this
is a little OT for this list but I didn't know where else to post this.
Some of this is in the mactel-boot package, source is in koji, and also here:
http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/mactel-boot/
And then there's various logical bits in Anaconda to create the HFS+
volume, and get things installed there.
Some of this is documented on Matthew Garrett's blog, you'll have to
search around:
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/7468.html
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html
One thing that's also unique to Fedora is the boot media. All of
Fedora's x86_64 boot media will boot BIOS, UEFI, and Macs. And that
too is non-trivial.
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html
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Chris Murphy