Installing Fedora 17 on new MacBook Pro 13 (9,2)

[bcs296]

Hi,

My understanding is that F17 can be booted and installed on compatible MBPs via EFI.

I just purchased one of the recently released Ivy Bridge MBPs and can't seem to get this to work.

I tried with both the Live CD and the full DVD.

1. Insert disc.
2. Restart computer.
3. Hold Alt/Option button.
4. Select Fedora installation.
5. At Fedora boot screen, I select any option and hit enter but then nothing happens. I see the blue boot screen background image and the cursor in the top left corner.

Eventually the disc stops spinning and at this point, I have to hard reset the machine to get it to boot back up.

Has anybody else been able to install F17 on one of these new MBPs or seen the same symptoms I'm seeing? I'm curious if the issue is related to the new CPU/GPU.

Thanks.

---------- Post added at 05:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:02 PM ----------

Looks like somebody else has tried and is getting the same results on one of the new MacBook Air devices: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=281038

[marco765]

have you tried using a liveUSB created with livecd-iso-to-disk using the --efi option? i have no personal experience but remember hearing about it

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=h...sk.pod;hb=HEAD

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to..._of_USB_sticks

[LambarO]

Originally Posted by marco765

have you tried using a liveUSB created with livecd-iso-to-disk using the --efi option? i have no personal experience but remember hearing about it

I tried that on the Air, same problem persists.

[gafed]

Hi,

Did you have any success? Have you been able to install fedora on the macbook pro? If yes, everything works: wifi...

Thanks

[bcs296]

Making some progress. A few folks on here are following this bug report that I submitted: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834076