On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 09:32:22 -0700 Lonni J Friedman <netll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, i filed a bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745355 > > All of the work arounds in the Centos bug are for people who have > already installed the OS, but can no longer boot it. I can't even > install Fedora. I'd have to somehow edit the install image, and > rebuild it to attempt those work arounds. That's significantly more > effort than I'm willing to put forth to install an OS. I'll just > install a different Linux distro, and move on with my life. A caveat. Other distros will work if they have either the patched new version (unlikely, if not CentOS), or the old version. The good news is that if it is using the old version, if / when they update to the latest version, you will know what to do when your system no longer boots. What I got from the workaround thread is that old macs can't use uefi. So, if you get the fedora netinstall image, and choose legacy boot (MBR) during the install, it should install and boot just fine. The same should be true for any other distro. Then this problem won't happen in the future, regardless of what the distro does with uefi. I am not familiar enough with macs to know if they have a bios setting that tells the system to boot in non-uefi mode. If they do, you should be able to boot the F30 image as non-uefi, and have no issues, because it isn't possible to install a uefi system from a non-uefi boot. The images default to uefi because that is best for new systems. When I booted the netinstall image, I hit the Del or F2 key, got to the firmware boot menu screen, and was able to explicitly select legacy boot for the image. You could try that before going to the trouble of downloading a new image. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
