I've been testing the F18 TCx and SmokeNN builds in a VirtualBox EFI
environment. For anyone interested here are some notes on getting it
working.
1) Use only a SATA controller for both the virtual optical and storage
drives. The default for a new guest is to make the optical drive
on an IDE controller, and it will time out and fail
2) Edit the GRUB parameters to include video=efifb and use inst.usefbx
so that anaconda will work in graphical mode
3) The installed system won't take to the FB X server by itself, I had
to mangle a xorg.conf file to bring up an 800x600 fbdev instance and
then let firstboot run on a reboot
4) Install the GuestAdditions vboxvideo driver asap so that X will
come up without intervention. You will need to install dkms for
building GuestAdditions.
5) After updating to updates-testing, the update process does not
grok the EFI setup and you get dropped into the EFI shell. Exit
and go to Boot Maintenance to boot from file and find the
<EFI>....fedora/ .efi boot and grub will recover.
I need to file a BZ for the update EFI incompatibility but have not
quite figured out which component to file against yet.
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G.Wolfe Woodbury
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