[GRLUG] continuing fedora installation trials and tribulations

[andross at gmail.com]

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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