On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I accidentally sent this through a different address, so I think it's > just going to come back to me. If it turns out to be a double post, > please forgive me. > > > > I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a one time fluke. I don't have time > or hardware to do several test installs, but perhaps someone else has > experienced it. > > What happened: I used unetbootin (yes, I know it's not supported, but I > believe dd-ing an image to USB is supported, and might have the same > result.) > > I installed. I was not notified of a problem with not having a small > BIOS partition and thought the machine might have EFI support. > > After installation, I was unable to boot. (This was at work, while > doing several things, and didn't write down the error.) Having seen > some bugs having to do with SELinux, also tried to boot with enforce=0 > but no luck. > > I then reinstalled, this time making a 1 or 2 MB BIOS partition, It > installed with problem. > > What I think might have happened: > > When I got to partitioning, the USB stick was shown as /dev/sdb. It had > the EFI partition on it, put there, I imagine, when Unetbootin installed > the netinstall.iso that I used. Therefore, Anaconda saw that there was > a BIOS partition and didn't give a warning. > > If this is the case, IMHO, it should just be pointed out in the release > notes. Ideally, Anaconda would figure it out and point it out, but I > imagine that would be a lot of work, and it's late, and certainly not, > again IMHO, a blocker. > > I reiterate, I don't know if that is what happened, it's just what I > think happened, and perhaps there was some other thing that I missed > that caused the first install to not boot. Perhaps someone could test > this--install, from a USB onto a drive with no BIOS boot partition (and > no builtin EFI support), see if such a partition is shown on the USB > stick and see if, after installation, it boots. > -- One thing worth checking is that when you did the install running from a usb stick - there has been a long standing issue that the bootloader may get installed on the key instead of your hard drive unless you check and change the bootloader section when you get to that screen in the install process? That has bitten me many times - and I don't know if that bug has been fully squashed yet? This may not apply in your case but is certainly worth checking. -- mike c -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
