On Thu, 05 May 2022 13:51:47 -0000 "Elias Peiris" <epeiris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am a user of Fedora 35 on an old computer. Because of low memory, > low disk space and performance reasons I would want to install Fedora > 35 workstation on to a new HP desktop. The computer had pre-installed > Windows 11 (UEFI BIOS). I tried to install Fedora35 using a USB > drive. In order to see the boot menu I had to provide acpi=off at > command line. Installation to a partition went until that stopped > with the error message "Failed to set new efi boot target". Tried to > install without a Windows partition on a clean disk but got the same > error. I managed to install Debian11 with a VGA screen. My system > is Intel core i7 11 gen i7-11700@215GHz, 16G RAM with integrated > Intel UHD Graphics 750. > > May I have some instructions to follow. I am not knowledgeable about the specifics here, but from your description it sounds like the efi partition is write protected when the install tries to put the /boot/efi/EFI/fedora partition in place so that fedora can boot with UEFI. Was the Debian install a UEFI install? If you look in the /boot/efi partition from debian, is there a Debian entry? If the answer to both of the above is yes, then there is a bug in the installer, because if Debian can install to the efi partition, fedora should also be able to. Please go here, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and enter a bug for fedora, with anaconda as the application. Make sure to specify the hp model you are using so research can find if it does indeed lock the efi partition. If no, I *think* any such blockage would have a setting in the BIOS, which is usually accessed by pressing a key during boot (F2 or Del?). If you switch that to turn off the protection, the install should work as it will then be able to put the fedora boot information into the efi partition. _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
