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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