Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

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On Mon, 2023-07-17 at 11:25 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> this system had F22 on it.
> 
> I just went through all the steps to blow away the old partitions and
> install F38.
> 
> It tried for maybe an hour with the spindizzy on "Installing boot
> loader".
> 
> If finally came back with a dialog box with an error of:
> 
> The following error occurred while installing the boot loader.  The 
> system will not be bootable.  Would you like to ignore this and
> continue 
> with the installation?
> 
> Failed to set new efi boot target.  This is most likely a kernel or 
> firmware bug.
> 
> No|Yes
> 
> What should I do at this point.  It IS an old system that has had a 
> number of ver of Fedora on it.  It was booting F22 just fine, it
> seemed 
> but now it is all gone...

Did the old system use EFI or BIOS?
Have you tried booting a live USB stick of F38 on the hardware?

poc
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