Macbook Blue and yellow color switch , on boot camp and mac

Hey i dont know whats wrong with my macbook it keeps switching colour from blue to yellow, but mostly blue and i havent seen the real colours for like 2 weeks its been like this, everything that is supposed to be black is blue and occasionaly when it gets darker on screen it becomes yellow, might this be beacuse of i got boot camp or what? and i dont mean that normal issue u get on macbook pro thoose horizontal lines blue and yellow, mine stay like this all the time, ive trie everything like calibrating coloue and display ETC, HELP PLS ,

Hi The Gift,
have a look here for a tri-boot Mac http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/12/02/how-to-triple-boot-mac-pro-with-os-x -fedora-windows/
And yes, you have to revert back to a single OSX harddisk in order to tri-boot.
Although for initial testing/experiencing I would propose to use VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/ and put Fedora in a VM.
The i386 package should work just fine on your MacBook. Or you can use the 64-bit Fedora variant which is then called x86_64
Regards
Stefan

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