On 01/12/2013 07:50 PM, William Brown wrote:
>
> Anyone has a clue please?
>
> As I'm suspecting it's using the BIOS emulation (how to check??), I'd
> like to try booting it as a "real EFI" OS but I have no clue of how
> that would work, and couldn't find much literature on this subject, at
> least not suitable for my level of skill.. any pointers appreciated,
> especially to work with Fedora 18!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sanne
You should be able to plug in a fedora 18 usb installer, and from the
standard EFI boot menu (hold option while pressing power) you should see
the fedora logo and be able to install from it. This will give you efi
mode. Try to avoid booting from the system with a disc icon that says
"windows" (aka bios emulation).
Most hardware in the most mode works, except for dual graphics switching
to the intel gpu. See this bug for details.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765954
Or, if all else fails, boot from the Live CD (or DVD) or net install &
install that way. Unless it's specifically a Fedora issue that I'm
unaware of[1], it should work (I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my wife's
Macbook Pro using the same route without any problems at all).
Cheers,
Phil...
[1] by this I mean with Fedora 18. I've only tested Spherical in a VM
with CentOS as the host & am currently using RC3 on a HP server headless.
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currently (ab)using
CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical,
Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal
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