On 05/06/2013 at 12:54 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >You're making this even more confusing to anyone reading this thread. >You specifically stated: > >> This enabled me to choose from a non-EFI boot device, which was critical to getting the F18 DVD to boot directly. Yes, but I never said the USB stick was *that* device. I never got the USB stick to boot until I 'dd-ed' the EFI image to it using an F18 installation I have in Virtual Box on my Win7 PC. Enabling CSM (Compatibility Support Mode) on my ASUS laptop enabled me to boot the Fedora 18 **DVD** with anaconda starting properly after choosing it from the grub menu, as it should. With EFI enabled (and CSM disabled), booting from the EFI DVD device gave me a grub prompt but nothing beyond it. The DVD would just spin down after I tried to start the install. Every time. >You boot the DVD image and it automatically launches anaconda that resides on it. Not in my case, it didn't. Not from the outset. The very first time I tried I got grub, hit Enter and waited. Nothing other than the DVD finally spinning down ever happened. It just sat there. Forever. And that was a DVD built from a validated ISO downloaded from the Fedora site, BTW (Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso). >find... I don't know what else we can do to make it simpler. Once I (inadvertently) got rid of the EFI partition, it was perfectly simple. :-) Of course, having full package selection available *within* the installer instead of having add them later would be nice, but I digress... Plus the help I received on the Fedora Forums was, well, helpful instead of argumentative. I see no reason to bicker any further - It's installed and running fine. The fact that it just so happens to be in legacy mode is less than irrelevant to me. Thanks for the help; I'm done on this topic. -- Len Philpot len@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lphilpot.zenfolio.com http://www.mostimportantthing.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
