(Thank you, Rod, if you are reading this message). It was a struggle until I came across Rod Smith's excellent tutorial on EFI boot.

Yes, I've gotten F16 to run on MacBook Pro 8.2. the current v 2.3 firmware out for the 15' 2011 Macbook Pros is not UEFI 2.x compliant at all, it's still based on the older Intel EFI which no operating system is officially supporting as far as I know, except Apple's Mac OS. Also, Apple's firmware versioning scheme should not be confused with UEFI standard versioning, they aren't related. They need to provide a compliant UEFI 2.x based firmware rather than the proprietary and undocumented firmware they are using (largely based on Intel EFI 1.10 supposedly but at this point I think it's mostly fair to say it's Apple EFI). The longer term solution is really in Apple's hands. Whereas with the CSM this isn't possible which is why battery life basically sucks when booting Windows or any non-Mac OS system while using CSM mode booting. But the main benefit is ACPI support meaning much better power management is possible making the laptop usable with approximately Mac OS level battery life. I found it to be over my skill level at this point.

I have found EFI booting to be a total dead end, although there is an Ubuntu hosted recipe for getting it to work on 8,1 8,2 and 8,3 models. 'BIOS emulation') booting, not EFI booting or installation of Fedora.

Possible additional problem if you received an error during installation:īoth apply to CSM (EFI compatibility support module, a.k.a.

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