There is no BIOS to enter on Macs. All I can do is select the boot device. There's also no way to choose legacy boot during the OS installation, as this failure happens long before the installer runs. Its blowing up somewhere in the boot loader phase. Also, performing a legacy (MBR) installation on a Mac causes lots of other things fail to work correctly. On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:53 AM stan via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 09:32:22 -0700 > Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > OK, i filed a bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745355 > > > > All of the work arounds in the Centos bug are for people who have > > already installed the OS, but can no longer boot it. I can't even > > install Fedora. I'd have to somehow edit the install image, and > > rebuild it to attempt those work arounds. That's significantly more > > effort than I'm willing to put forth to install an OS. I'll just > > install a different Linux distro, and move on with my life. > > A caveat. Other distros will work if they have either the patched new > version (unlikely, if not CentOS), or the old version. The good news > is that if it is using the old version, if / when they update to the > latest version, you will know what to do when your system no longer > boots. > > What I got from the workaround thread is that old macs can't use uefi. > So, if you get the fedora netinstall image, and choose legacy boot (MBR) > during the install, it should install and boot just fine. The same > should be true for any other distro. Then this problem won't happen in > the future, regardless of what the distro does with uefi. > > I am not familiar enough with macs to know if they have a bios setting > that tells the system to boot in non-uefi mode. If they do, you should > be able to boot the F30 image as non-uefi, and have no issues, because > it isn't possible to install a uefi system from a non-uefi boot. The > images default to uefi because that is best for new systems. When I > booted the netinstall image, I hit the Del or F2 key, got to the > firmware boot menu screen, and was able to explicitly select legacy > boot for the image. You could try that before going to the trouble of > downloading a new image. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
