Hi, folks. This is a special testing request for F19 Alpha.
There are known to be a couple of bugs that can cause UEFI installation
to fail because there isn't enough space in the firmware NVRAM; as a fix
for that somewhat-infamous bricking bug on some laptops, the current F19
kernel refuses to write to the NVRAM if it's 50% or more full. As Josh
put it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947142
"The kernel now limits efivars from using more than 50% of the available
firmware space. This has some known deficiencies if the firmware on the
machine doesn't do garbage collection to free up space. This is being
worked on upstream."
Unfortunately we really don't know how many systems are likely to have
problems with this mechanism, and so we're finding it hard to decide if
we need to block the Alpha on the kernel improvements. So we're asking
that anyone who has a machine with a UEFI firmware on which they can
safely do a disposable test install - to a spare disk or partition or
whatever - try and do a *native UEFI* install of F19 Alpha RC2 (if
writing to a USB stick with livecd-iso-to-disk, remember to pass --efi
to make a UEFI bootable stick):
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-RC2/
and see if you get a successful install. Bear in mind that there are
obviously other bugs you might run into as this is an Alpha build - if
you run into anything else by all means report it separately, but what
we're principally interested in is, if you make it to bootloader
installation (one of the last things done in the install process), does
it succeed, or do you get an error? And if it succeeds, does the
installed system boot - at least as far as grub?
If as many people as possible could test and send their feedback to this
thread or as a comment on the bug report, that'd be great. Thanks!
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