On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:25 AM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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...
You can check if the system provides EFI variables using fwupdmgr. It
will look something like:
$ sudo fwupdmgr get-devices 2>&1 | grep -i -E 'UEFI|BIOS'
│ Summary: UEFI ESRT device
└─UEFI dbx:
Summary: UEFI revocation database
Vendor: UEFI:Linux Foundation
GUIDs: c6682ade-b5ec-57c4-b687-676351208742 ←
UEFI\CRT_A1117F516A32CEFCBA3F2D1ACE10A87972FD6BBE8FE0D0B996E09E65D802A503
f8ba2887-9411-5c36-9cee-88995bb39731 ←
UEFI\CRT_A1117F516A32CEFCBA3F2D1ACE10A87972FD6BBE8FE0D0B996E09E65D802A503&ARCH_X64
There may be other ways to determine if EFI is available.
Jeff
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