On 01/06/2014 02:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Jan 6, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/05/2014 04:04 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Jan 5, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just did a test and it failed. :(
I updated the firmware. Rebooted twice. Did NOT go into Bios setup. Booted the f20 x86_64 netinstal CD and it failed at the same point. I copied all the logs and will upload them to bug 1047993.
I rebooted with the f20 x86_64 LiveDVD, the efibootmgr -v showed no changes to the boot list; LAN is still removed. Did the steps that Chris requested and I doubt you will see anything in the dmesg reports which I will upload to 1047993.
Is there anyway to install x86_64 without efi? I seem to recall some Bios settings about legacy efi?
Remind me, this is dualboot Windows and Fedora on this computer both on one drive? Or just Fedora?
If it's just Fedora, it ought to still boot even with the failed NVRAM entry because the firmware should find bootx64.efi and use that, which I think is a copy of grubx64.efi.
If you must have dual boot, I think you're going to have to abandon grub and look at rEFInd which can boot both Windows and Fedora without grub, and without NVRAM dependency.
Another possibility, is to "disable UEFI" which is a bad way of saying "enable BIOS compatibility". But in that case, Windows must be reinstalled because in BIOS mode it only boots from MBR drives, and in UEFI mode it only boots from GPT drives.
The drive I have been trying to install to just boots to grub> so there appears to be some things that needed to be done after the efibootmgr step.
Actually that's good news. I think the grub.cfg hasn't been created due to the bootloader fail, it comes after efibootmgr which actually is probably a valid anaconda bug/RFE if I'm right. It should create the grub.cfg before writing to NVRAM, just in case we don't get a valid write to NVRAM, we could still boot.
Anyway, boot in rescue mode from DVD or netinst using the troubleshoot menu,
let it mount your partitions for you
How do I 'let it mount my partitions' for me? I have to have a full set
of notes as it is power down, switch drives then try something. No
asking for help in the middle.
and then:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
exit
reboot
It should work now.
Chris Murphy
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