Installed Fedora 11 on MacBook Pro fails to boot.

Henrik Frisk frisk.h at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 13:34:46 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've managed to install Fedora 11 on my MacBook Pro. I want a dual boot
> setup so I have a partition for the OSX, made smaller in order for the
> Fedora install to fit. For the partioning I followed the instructions found
> here:
>
> http://www.cenolan.com/2009/06/installing-fedora-11-on-a-macbook/
>
> Though the installer finished without complaints I can't boot from the
> newly installed system. I'm using rEFIt-0.13 to choose boot partition and
> it recognizes the Fedora 11 install but once chosen I end up with a prompt
> telling me there is "no bootable device - insert bootable disk and press any
> key."
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> best,
>
> Henrik
>
Sorry, should have included more hardware info:

Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,2

  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

  Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz

  Number Of Processors: 1

  Total Number Of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache: 6 MB

  Memory: 4 GB

  Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

  Boot ROM Version: MBP52.008E.B05


*NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:*


  Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

  Type: Display

  Bus: PCI

  VRAM (Total): 256 MB

  Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

  Device ID: 0x0863

  Revision ID: 0x00b1

  ROM Revision: 3436

  gMux Version: 1.7.10

  Displays:

*Color LCD:*

  Resolution: 1920 x 1200

  Depth: 32-Bit Color

  Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

  Main Display: Yes

  Mirror: Off

  Online: Yes

  Quartz Extreme: Supported

  Built-In: Yes


*NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT:*


  Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

  Type: Display

  Bus: PCIe

  PCIe Lane Width: x16

  VRAM (Total): 512 MB

  Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

  Device ID: 0x0647

  Revision ID: 0x00a1

  ROM Revision: 3436

  gMux Version: 1.7.10

  Displays:


These are the partitions, the first two are for OSX:

Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
 2         409640    488198167  Mac OS X HFS+
 3      488198168    488607767  EFI System (FAT)
 4      488607768    972550167  Basic Data
 5      972550168    976771095  Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1    976773167  ee  EFI Protective

MBR contents:
 Boot Code: None

Partition at LBA 40:
 Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
 File System: FAT32
 Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 409640:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
 Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 488198168:
 Boot Code: GRUB
 File System: ext3
 Listed in GPT as partition 3, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 488607768:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: ext3
 Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data

Partition at LBA 972550168:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: Unknown
 Listed in GPT as partition 5, type Basic Data
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