On Jan 6, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> wrote:
> > On 01/05/2014 04:04 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> wrote: >>> Just did a test and it failed. :( >>> >>> I updated the firmware. Rebooted twice. Did NOT go into Bios setup. >>> Booted the f20 x86_64 netinstal CD and it failed at the same point. I >>> copied all the logs and will upload them to bug 1047993. >>> >>> I rebooted with the f20 x86_64 LiveDVD, the efibootmgr -v showed no changes >>> to the boot list; LAN is still removed. Did the steps that Chris requested >>> and I doubt you will see anything in the dmesg reports which I will upload >>> to 1047993. >>> >>> Is there anyway to install x86_64 without efi? I seem to recall some Bios >>> settings about legacy efi? >> Remind me, this is dualboot Windows and Fedora on this computer both on one >> drive? Or just Fedora? >> >> If it's just Fedora, it ought to still boot even with the failed NVRAM entry >> because the firmware should find bootx64.efi and use that, which I think is >> a copy of grubx64.efi. >> >> If you must have dual boot, I think you're going to have to abandon grub and >> look at rEFInd which can boot both Windows and Fedora without grub, and >> without NVRAM dependency. >> >> Another possibility, is to "disable UEFI" which is a bad way of saying >> "enable BIOS compatibility". But in that case, Windows must be reinstalled >> because in BIOS mode it only boots from MBR drives, and in UEFI mode it only >> boots from GPT drives. > > The drive I have been trying to install to just boots to grub> so there > appears to be some things that needed to be done after the efibootmgr step. Actually that's good news. I think the grub.cfg hasn't been created due to the bootloader fail, it comes after efibootmgr which actually is probably a valid anaconda bug/RFE if I'm right. It should create the grub.cfg before writing to NVRAM, just in case we don't get a valid write to NVRAM, we could still boot. Anyway, boot in rescue mode from DVD or netinst using the troubleshoot menu, let it mount your partitions for you and then: chroot /mnt/sysimage grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg exit reboot It should work now. Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
