Installed Fedora 11 on MacBook Pro fails to boot.

Jurgen Kramer gtmkramer at xs4all.nl
Fri Jul 24 14:01:28 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 15:34 +0200, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> 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
I had the same problem when I installed F11 on my iMac, fixed it with
syncing the partitions. You can use the refit tools for that.

Jurgen




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