Fedora 8 installation on a new Mac Pro (Peyron)

Hello. I am doing numerical computations (solid state) and to achieve this end, I have just purchased three of the new eight core Mac Pros from Apple. I will probably end up purchasing another five machines in the upcoming fiscal year. I have been running my applications up to this point using open-mpi and the (64 bit) Intel compiler and have been very satisfied with the results. End of the preamble. I now have the need to run a commercial application with copy protection (from Accelrys) under a Red Hat system. I successfully tested the system under Fedora 8 with a VMWare solution and it worked fine. This was done using the DVD image from the Fedora site. I would thus like to install Fedora 8 natively on a dual boot system. I had no trouble installing Ubuntu (but the commercial system installation sequence fails and I would rather not beat a dead horse) natively, but upon installing Fedora 8 without incident, the system hangs in the boot sequence with one of two outcomes -- a blinking cursor in the corner or the message no operating system is present. I have been using Rferit . I would be even happy to install Fedora on a dedicated disk (the Mac Pro holds up to four SATA drives). Questions: In a nutshell "How can I install a 64 bit Fedora OS on the Mac Pro"? Will upcoming Fedora 9 (January release I believe) solve the installation problems -- or is there some other hack I can do to solve it? Last question: Can I just buy RHEL for the Mac Pro -- or is this system not supported? -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=236608&t... If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame paul-fons(a)aist.go.jp.