On 13/2/19 7:47 am, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 2/12/19 1:14 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
I have burnt a Fedora 29 workstation live install to DVD and
tried to boot it with the bios set to UEFI mode, but it halted with a
boot error. Thinking there might be an error with the DVD I
downloaded a tool for windows that allowed me to download and burn
the F29 installer to usb, but this failed to boot with the same issue
as the DVD. If I switched the bios into legacy mode both the DVD and
USB successfully booted to the Fedora desktop. From what I have read
on the net the live installer is dual setup, in terms of the
documentation said that if the installer was booted in UEFI mode it
would perform a UEFI install and if it was booted in legacy mode it
would do a bios install, so given this have I done something
incorrectly to cause the installer to not boot in UEFI mode?
I have booted the F29 live using USB in UEFI mode. What is the error
you are getting? If you're creating it from Windows, you should be
using the Fedora live media writer.
I'm not sure what the tool I used was, I'll need to check my wife's
machine where I installed it, but it was a tool obtained from a Fedora
web site which downloaded the installer and burnt it to usb. I'm not
sure what the failure was as it didn't display any message other than to
say the boot failed. I also had a bootable dvd of 'Partition Magic' and
'Gparted', both of which I created years ago, and both of these also
failed to boot with the bios in UEFI mode but booted quite happily with
the bios in legacy mode. Both of these also could not see any drive to
work with when the bios was in raid mode, including the ssd which was
not in the array anyway.
Having set my hard disks up in Raid 10 mode I booted the F29
installer in bios mode which successfully booted to the desktop,
where I selected the install to hard disk option which worked fine up
to the point of setting up the disks, where the disk setup could not
see any disks at all to configure for installation. From what I've
read on the internet the workstation installers for F22 through F24
did not support raid but the equivalent server installers did. Has
this still not been rectified up to the F29 workstation installer?
How are you creating the RAID? Is this hardware RAID or software
RAID? If hardware, then what is the RAID model? Also, it's easier to
use Linux software RAID which you can setup in the installer. And
personally, I think it's safer and probably faster.
This was a hardware raid provided by the motherboard bios. I'm not sure
what the RAID model is, all I know is the bios had an option to set all
the sata ports to either AHCI mode or RAID mode. I didn't check the raid
model in the installer, and since configuring the raid array the prompt
to enter the configurator is no longer displayed. The keyboard shortcut
may still be available but I haven't tried it since setting up the
array. The bios also has an option to copy the raid drivers from the
supplied DVD to usb, which it recommends that the bios not be set to
raid until the copy has been done. Unfortunately the raid drivers are
only for windows. From what I have read the installer up to F21
supported raid in the installer, and I have used hardware raid 0 in an
earlier Fedora version which the installer had no trouble using.
regards,
Steve
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