Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 21:32 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/14/2012 07:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > That sounds odd. Are you double-extra-plus sure it was booting UEFI? It > > should never attempt to format to MS-DOS for a UEFI install. I suppose > > it might just be that the*message

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/14/2012 07:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: That sounds odd. Are you double-extra-plus sure it was booting UEFI? It should never attempt to format to MS-DOS for a UEFI install. I suppose it might just be that the*message* was incorrect. <-- I'm a UEFI noob. My EFI does not have any "BIOS/E

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 19:36 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/14/2012 07:17 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > anaconda will use the existing partition label format unless you direct > > it to reformat the entire drive, in which case it'll use the preferred > > format for the install you're doi

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/14/2012 07:17 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: anaconda will use the existing partition label format unless you direct it to reformat the entire drive, in which case it'll use the preferred format for the install you're doing. It's not possible to re-label a drive without reformatting it. So if t

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:53 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > > I need to file a BZ for the update EFI incompatibility but have not > > quite figured out which component to file against yet. > > Bare in mind that VBox EFI is not fully functional. I just loaded F17 > (in

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 11/14/2012 04:07 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:43 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > >> 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 reboo

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:43 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > 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 That's a bug, sir. X on efifb should work witho

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Andre Robatino
Just FYI: EFI install in VirtualBox results in text install https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742695 -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > I need to file a BZ for the update EFI incompatibility but have not > quite figured out which component to file against yet. Bare in mind that VBox EFI is not fully functional. I just loaded F17 (install ISO, not live) on a brand-new UEFI-only motherboard with full graphi

Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

2012-11-14 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
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 a