>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Danenberg <pcd at roxygen.org> writes:
Peter> Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The
Peter> Aftermath:
>> Can you sketch the details of this reformatting exercise
>> please?
Peter> I'm not sure if the formatting is, strictly speaking,
Peter> necessary; but here's how I got Fedora 12 installed on the
Peter> second-gen Air:
Peter> 1. Used the Disk Utility on the OS X Install DVD to erase
Peter> all the partitions; see, e.g.:
Peter> http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html
Peter> for details.
Peter> 2. Installed Fedora 12 with the following boot
Peter> parameters:
Peter> intel_iommu=off vga=771
Peter> I find it interesting that it worked for you out of
Peter> the box; with a first-gen Air, I was forced to use:
Peter> xdriver=vesa acpi=off
Peter> 3. At this point, you should have a successful
Peter> installation which fails to boot; if so, boot from a
Peter> rEFIt[1] CD and run gptsync from the Partitioning Tool.
Peter> It's possible that only step 3 is applicable to you, if
Peter> indeed you have a successful installation.
I tried step 3 alone and it works!
Thank you for your time.
Peter> Footnotes: [1] http://refit.sourceforge.net/
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire