[GRLUG] continuing fedora installation trials and tribulations

[Faeren Madza]

Many BIOSes I've seen allow you to set "boot mode" to 'Legacy' effectively
turning off UEFI...

Is that an option for you?


F.


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:29 AM, <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:

> Crap!! I just spent another 3-4 hours downloading and installing openSUSE
> 12.3
> only to get the same result when I tried to start: "Operating system not
> found."
>
> What is one supposed to do? I've been an enthusiast for Linux for about 12
> years
> now, but this is getting ridiculous. Why aren't things getting better
> rather
> than worse?
>
> UEFI enabled systems are 3-4 years old now. Why can't the installers handle
> them?
>
> There don't seem to be any of the options mentioned here in either the
> Fedora or
> the openSUSE installation processes.
>
> Quoting Josh <leapole at gmail.com>:
>
> > Might want to check and see if you need the efi kernel also. I know
> cents has
> > a special install disc for that
> >
> >
> > > On Oct 11, 2013, at 6:02 PM, andross at gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > > It looks like an EFI issue, which can get quite despicable. You can
> usually
> > enable a default BIOS fallback mode in the EFI setup, which will let you
> > finish a normal distro install. Then you can install and configure
> grub2-efi,
> > reboot the computer, and enjoy.
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:10 PM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Check your BIOS/CMOS for some sort of "protect boot sector" options -
> > >> some systems had that as  crude defense against (windows based)
> > >> boot-sector viruses, and block attempts to write the MBR of the hard
> > >> drive. Obviously you need to turn these off, if you find them and they
> > >> are enabled.
> > >>
> > >> What machine is this? Is it an OEM machine or a built one?
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:02 PM,  <ebever at researchintegration.org>
> wrote:
> > >> > After giving up on FedUp, I downloaded the DVD for Fedora 19 and
> three
> > times
> > >> > tried to install it. The first two times at about 60% of files
> copied
> > it
> > >> > croaked and left me at the Live User Screen. The third time (I went
> > directly to
> > >> > 'install' rather than selecting it from Live User) it finished
> > installing etc
> > >> > but then croaked trying to install the boot loader.
> > >> >
> > >> > At this point I went home and tried to install my old Fedora 17. It
> went
> > much
> > >> > more quickly but has also failed at the point of trying to install
> the
> > boot
> > >> > loader.
> > >> >
> > >> > In between I had tried to do a disk-install of Knoppix, but even
> when I
> > >> > formatted the disk to have the partitions that Knoppix wanted it
> kept
> > telling
> > >> > me that it couldn't find the appropriate partitions to install.
> > >> >
> > >> > So now my nice computer, that at least was working this morning,
> even
> > though
> > >> > Evo
> > >> > was giving me grief, now has apparently been bricked.
> > >> >
> > >> > Anyone have any ideas? I'm downloading opensuse, but as I recall it
> > wouldn't
> > >> > work on this computer a couple of years ago when I went to Fedora.
> Maybe
> > it's
> > >> > better now.
> > >> >
> > >> > The fedora 17 installer created
> > >> > sda1 210MB fat16 EFI System Partition  boot
> > >> >     EFI (dir)
> > >> >         redhat (dir)
> > >> >            grub2-efi (dir)
> > >> >               grub.efi
> > >> >     mach_kernel
> > >> >     System (dir)
> > >> >          Library (dir)
> > >> >              Core Services (dir)
> > >> >
> > >> > sda2 524MB ext4
> > >> >     config 3.3.4-5...
> > >> >     efi (dir)
> > >> >     elf-memtest86....
> > >> >     grub (dir)
> > >> >     grub2 (dir)
> > >> >     initramfs....
> > >> >     lost+found (dir)
> > >> >     memtest86....
> > >> >     System.map-3.3.4-5...
> > >> >     vinLinux-3.3.4-5
> > >> >
> > >> > sda3 57.3GB ext4
> > >> >     bin (dir)
> > >> >     boot (dir)
> > >> >     dev (dir)
> > >> >     ....
> > >> >
> > >> > sda4 5.96GB  swap
> > >> >
> > >> > sda5 260GB ext4
> > >> >     lost+found
> > >> >
> > >> > Can I find the right bootloader files and copy them in to the right
> > places?
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks
>
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