Comments on: Natively run Fedora 11 on an Intel Mac

By: Scott Dowdle

Scott Dowdle — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:25:00 +0000

Just wanted to mention I finished HOWTO and it can be found here: HOWTO: Linux on the Intel iMac - Triple booting

By: Scott Dowdle

Scott Dowdle — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:16:24 +0000

I’m a sysadmin for the CS Department at MSU-Bozeman in Montana… and am responsible for a mixed lab of PCs and Intel iMacs. The PCs have always been dual-boot… and this year I plan on making the iMacs triple-boot. After much searching I finally found a recipe on triple-booting that only required a little updating/streamlining. At first getting a triple-boot setup was a major PITA… but after doing it several times, it is quite easy. Now I just have to figure out a way to image/clone that works well. I plan on making writing a current HOWTO in the near future.

We recently replaced Core Duo iMacs (from 2006) with new Core 2 Duo iMacs (July 2009). Fedora worked great on the 2006 iMacs except for the built-in iSight camera and wireless. But the newer iMacs have an nVidia GeForce 9400 video chipset and while it works, it does not give the max resolution unlike the previous iMac. Sound doesn’t work either. Wired networking seems strangely slow.

I can’t seem to find too many resources on Linux/Fedora on the iMac and a most if what I’m finding is outdated. Anyone know of any additional resources?

By: innovatel

innovatel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:30:55 +0000

@Steven -> ok thank for the answer I hope to find a solution

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:29:33 +0000

Yes sure, but without the glue, it’s pointless and useless for a standard user. You expect your OS to install on any box, there are already enough driver problems later :p

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:28:34 +0000

Sorry but I only run these boxes without a GUI, so I didn’t test the sound…

By: Michae

Michae — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:56:42 +0000

I have installed fedora on a macbook with efi without bootcamp. Anaconda is able to install on gpt, but I resized the partition with OS X. And you need grub 2 svn to boot. In order to avoid burning a dvd, I have used network instal, directly in grub, by booting the proper kernel and initrd.

So, technically, nothing prevent it from working, all the pieces are availiables, the glue is missing however

By: Michael DeHaan

Michael DeHaan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:39:36 +0000

After seeing Fedora /brick/ my iMac, even in dual boot scenarios, it would be nice if we tested this along with our usual installer testing and had better recognition and support for EFI. I would like to dual boot my machine, but have instead set up a second box just to avoid problems — so a future update doesn’t break things.

By: innovatel

innovatel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:26:19 +0000

Hi! Can I ask you a question? I try to install Fedora on my iMac (intel) and I download the Fedora 64 bit. The install process end without problem. I have a big problem after: the sound. I try a lot of solution but it doesn’t work. Do you have the same problem? What did you do? Thanks in advice