> On 01/30/2022 10:51 PM Chris Murphy wrote:
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> A 10 year old laptop is ~2011 which
> would put it in the Windows 7 era, and had substantially improved UEFI
> support.
>
I was only guessing on the age, but I can assure you that it has a Windows
Vista sticker and one for Intel Centrino
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:12 PM WMU Bavaria wrote:
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> > On 01/30/2022 10:00 PM Aaron wrote:
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> > If your computer was shipped with Windows 8 (release date 2012) or newer it
> > most likely has an UEFI capable bios.
>
> My laptop shipped with Windows Vista installed, long before UEFI was
> On 01/30/2022 10:00 PM Aaron wrote:
> If your computer was shipped with Windows 8 (release date 2012) or newer it
> most likely has an UEFI capable bios.
My laptop shipped with Windows Vista installed, long before UEFI was invented.
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I recommend looking at the bios setup again. The desktop I am writing this
email on is from 2011/2012 it is using UEFI and the laptop sitting in my lap
is from 2013 and both are using UEFI bios. I had very similar problem
stalling on my Laptop, I had to disable secure boot for the
> On 01/30/2022 3:49 PM Barry wrote:
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> Is this an EFI bios? If so there is a possibility that you need to reset the
> EFI variables.
> Some buggy EFI bios never clean up and fill nvram. This will prevent a new
> install.
>
No, at ten years old at least, it's too old for that.
> On 30 Jan 2022, at 17:49, WMU Bavaria wrote:
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>>> On 01/30/2022 8:00 AM George N. White III wrote:
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>> Did you manually partition the disk or let the installer use the defaults?
>>
>
> I always partition the disk myself both to get the layout I want and to
> preserve /home.
>
> On 01/30/2022 8:00 AM George N. White III wrote:
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> Did you manually partition the disk or let the installer use the defaults?
>
I always partition the disk myself both to get the layout I want and to
preserve /home.
> Have you ruled out a hardware problem?
The laptop's about 10 years
On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 at 19:58, WMU Bavaria wrote:
> My laptop crashed to the point it won't boot, so I ended up burning Fedora
> 35 Workstation on a LiveUSB and re-installing. When the install ended, it
> told me that it had failed to install the boot loader and the system wasn't
> bootable. I
My laptop crashed to the point it won't boot, so I ended up burning Fedora 35
Workstation on a LiveUSB and re-installing. When the install ended, it told me
that it had failed to install the boot loader and the system wasn't bootable.
I know that I created a /boot, but I don't know if I
