Having had a Mac Book Pro for about 2 weeks, I’ve been trying to get Fedora on it. Initially the reasoning was to get a live cd working (using Kadischi) and then hack anaconda to be able to install on to the Intel Macs. The biggest problem we had was to compile the Fedora kernel with the patches from the mactel-linux project.
Now that’s no longer needed. Today Apple released a firmware update that emulates BIOS in order to support their Windows install helper, Boot Camp. My first reaction was: OMG!
Right after that I tried to stick the Fedora Core 5 i386 install DVD and rebooted. The DVD got recognized as ‘Windows’ in the graphical boot menu, it then proceeded to boot the kernel, and start up anaconda. I had to quit it when it wanted to erase my hard drive because it was partitioned with GPT (GUID Partition Table). But now we have something much easier to work with.
Hurray!