Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

[Thomas Davies <t.davies@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want to dual-boot rEFIt <http://refit.sourceforge.net/> is a 
great help.


On 12/10/2011 02:44 PM, Glen Turner wrote:
> > I found it to be utterly easy: Boot Favourite CD/DVD
> > Install as usual
> With respect James, that has not been my experience with a 2011 MacBook
> Pro at all.  Distribution DVDs don't even boot, standard boot loaders
> don't support Apple's UEFI, the kernel dies. And sure, I've got Fedora
> working now. But wasn't something I'd put anyone else through.
> Apparently the next Fedora release will work out of the box -- but
> that's 12 months since the hardware appeared.
>
> -Glen