On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 10:30 +0800, Liang Suilong wrote: > I bought a new notebook for my jobs, Lenovo IdeaPad S205 (AMD E-450 > APU), building in MeeGo modified by Linpus. There is no BIOS in it, > just using UEFI. And there is no BIOS compatibility mode. So I must > use EFI GRUB. As we knew, Fedora 15 LiveUSB can not be booted on S205. > There is a bug on Lenovo > S205. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=262907 > > > I try to install Fedora 16 Beta RC2. I know there is many bugs before > Final GA. Luckily, the installation process runs smothly. After > rebooting my machine, UEFI can not load boot loader on HDD, skipping > HDD to boot USB or PXE. And then, I found Anaconda must create a BIOS > boot partition that size is about 1MB and an FAT partition for EFI If anaconda says you need a BIOS boot partition then anaconda believes your system is a BIOS system -- not EFI. You should open a bug report and include the following log files from within the installer's runtime environment: /tmp/anaconda.log /tmp/syslog /tmp/program.log /tmp/storage.log Thanks. > system is following. Later, I try to install Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2. > Their grub2 can support UEFI and GPT partition table normally. > However, BIOS boot partition does not appear in Ubuntu installer. I > make sure that Fedora 16 choose GPT for me. I am just allowed to > create primary partition on my HDD. > > > I could not assure whether this is a bug on Anaconda or GRUB 2. Maybe > I should file a bug report on Bugzilla. But I do not understand why > Anaconda need to create a BIOS boot partition on UEFI-only system. > This is my most important question. I do do not really get accustomed > to using Ubuntu. I love Fedora very much. > > > I just hope I can get replies soon. > > > Liang Suilong > > > -- > Fedora && Debian User, former Ubuntu User > My Page: http://www.liangsuilong.info > Fedora Project Contributor -- Packager && Ambassador > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Liangsuilong -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
