Having trouble installing Fedora 7 on a Mac Pro

[Spanky Deluxe]

Hi everyone!!

I recently started getting into Linux because for I need it for work. I started off with using it in a VMware virtual machine in OS X and tried all sorts of different distros, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, trying 32 bit and 64 bit versions. Fedora seemed the nicest and did everything I wanted it to so I settled on that. I decided I wanted something native too so did a bit of shuffling around of my hard drives and freed up 64gb of unpartitioned space on the tertiary hard drive of my system. I installed Refit to allow easy booting and proceeded to install Fedora. Now no matter which version I choose, 32 bit or 64 bit, it all installs fine but when it comes to booting, I select the installation of Fedora in Refit and push enter and then all I get is a flashing cursor in the top left of the screen. It did the same when I was using Boot Camp rather than Refit too.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get Fedora 7 to work on a Mac Pro?

My system is as follows:
2.66GHz Quad Mac Pro
3GB RAM
2x7300GT Graphics Cards
Superdrive
Airport Extreme (802.11g+'n')
250GB Primary HD - 160GB OS X + 90GB Windows XP SP2
300GB Secondary HD - 300GB Data
300GB Tertiary HD - 100GB Data + 64GB Unused (for Fedora) + 136GB Unused (for Data)
500GB Quaternary HD - 500GB Data
300GB Quinary HD - 300GB Data

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[Spanky Deluxe]

I take it Fedora on a Mac Pro natively is a no go then? I think it may be that grub's not loading properly but I don't know what to do about it.

[sc_frontier]

I'm having the same problem. Same system, install fedora 7 i386, but when I try to boot from my second hard drive (fedora) I get a message that says "missing operating system". I can't figure out a way to manipulate the install process to suit my machine. BTW I can only install in "text" mode and it freezes if i try the other way. I've tried the x86 version, and fedora 1 i386, to no avail.

[sc_frontier]

Ok i did a couple of things last night that got it going, but no graphical user interface yet, or I am not typing in the right thing. I reformated my second hardrive through OS X's device mananger and chose to format it in DOS. I think I had it in UNIX format before. Then I did custom partitions which I don't think made any difference (during the fedora install). Maybe the format of your partition has something to do with it spanky?

[sc_frontier]

First of all I was using i386 on my xenon processors which requires fedora 7 x86_64. ugh So now I am trying to create a bootable disk. going insaine