[GRLUG] continuing fedora installation trials and tribulations

[ebever at researchintegration.org]

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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