Fedora 11 install on MacBook Pro 5,2 fails

[Henrik Frisk]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Niels Haase <arxs at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> 2009/7/23 Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com>:
> > Dear all,
> > I'm having trouble installing Fedora 11 on my brand new MacBook Pro. With
> > the live CD (x86_64) will computer will not boot stopping at a black
> screen,
> > no messages. Booting from the DVD (also x86_64) the installer (anaconda)
> > starts up, the first screen with the option to check media displays. The
> > test passes but continuing eventually ends in a freeze with a small
> pointer
> > displaying at the middle of the screen.
>
> Can you please try it with xdriver=vesa as an anaconda boot option?
>

Thank you for the quick response (and sorry for my lazy reply), that did the
trick. Unfotunately the installled system would not boot, though the
installer finished without complaints, but I'll put that in a new thread.

Best,

Henrik
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