On 05/09/2013 at 04:45 PM, Phil Meyer wrote:
>There is a CAVEAT to booting EFI media. Most EFI will REQUIRE that the
>media be installed at power up before it will enable it.
>
>Try forcing a non boot with F2, F8, F11 or whatever, insert the EFI
>enabled media, power off, power on, and it shoul
On 05/06/2013 05:10 PM, Len Philpot wrote:
On 05/06/2013 at 12:54 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
You're making this even more confusing to anyone reading this thread.
You specifically stated:
...
You boot the DVD image and it automatically launches anaconda that resides on
it.
Not in my ca
On 05/06/2013 04:10 PM, Len Philpot wrote:
Of course, having full package selection available*within* the installer
instead of having add them later would be nice, but I digress...
If you set up your networking during the install, you have access to the
regular Fedora repos and can get just
On 05/06/2013 at 12:54 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>You're making this even more confusing to anyone reading this thread.
>You specifically stated:
>
>> This enabled me to choose from a non-EFI boot device, which was critical to
getting the F18 DVD to boot directly.
Yes, but I never said the U
On 05/06/2013 12:35 PM, Len Philpot wrote:
> I don't think I specifically said that I created a non-EFI USB stick -- I
> simply stated I created a USB boot stick (I didn't say whether it was EFI or
> not). Actually it /was/ an EFI USB boot stick, but I was unable to figure out
> how to launch anaco
On 05/06/2013 at 08:09 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>Enabling CSM is not required, nor should it be enabled if you want to
>use UEFI-mode.
>
>You must create a UEFI-compatible USB stick, which you stated you did
>not do. Pass "--efi" to the "livecd-iso-to-disk" script to do so.
I don't think I
On 05/05/2013 08:18 AM, Len Philpot wrote:
> I had to enable "CSM mode" in firmware. Your laptop may have another term for
> it. This enabled me to choose from a non-EFI boot device, which was critical
> to getting the F18 DVD to boot directly. There are apparently ways to boot
> from an EFI USB st
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Martín Marqués wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a new Acer Aspire One with Windows 8. The question that came up
> was when I realized that it had UEFI instead of BIOS (which I read, is
> what we're going to have to deal with from now on).
>
> What precautions should I ta
Windows 8 will definitely boot with Secure Boot disabled. I had mine set that
way for a while as I worked things out and it continued to boot.
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On 05/05/2013 at 12:54 PM, Doug wrote:
>On 05/05/2013
On 05/05/2013 12:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 05.05.2013, Martín Marqués wrote:
I have a new Acer Aspire One with Windows 8. The question that came up
was when I realized that it had UEFI instead of BIOS (which I read, is
what we're going to have to deal with from now on).
What precautions shou
On 05.05.2013, Martín Marqués wrote:
> I have a new Acer Aspire One with Windows 8. The question that came up
> was when I realized that it had UEFI instead of BIOS (which I read, is
> what we're going to have to deal with from now on).
> What precautions should I take with UEFI? Disable the Sec
For what it's worth, I recently went through this myself. I bought an ASUS
K55N with Win8 on it, UEFI and all that. I knew nothing (and still know
little) about the intricacies of UEFI, but did discover the following --
I had to enable "CSM mode" in firmware. Your laptop may have another term for
Hi all,
I have a new Acer Aspire One with Windows 8. The question that came up
was when I realized that it had UEFI instead of BIOS (which I read, is
what we're going to have to deal with from now on).
What precautions should I take with UEFI? Disable the Secure Boot?
(Read that I have to disable
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