On 3/25/24 10:21, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Thanks folks.
Disabling UEFI mode did the trick,
though I do not understand why it was necessary.
I thought that recent Fedora DVDs worked with both legacy and UEFI.
The Fedora-WS-Live-39-1.5 DVD does have an EFI directory.
I didn't get a grub menu until disabling UEFI.
Fedora can install on either legacy BIOS mode or modern UEFI. But when
it installs on UEFI systems, it creates a special partition mounted on
/boot/efi. If you boot a system which was installed in BIOS mode in UEFI
mode, it doesn't see that partition and won't boot.
If you want to run Fedora in UEFI mode, I am relatively certain you have
to reinstall (but I could absolutely be wrong). When I got a machine
which supported UEFI, I initially turned off UEFI and Secure Boot
because I'd heard horror stories about them with Linux. When I changed
it to UEFI, I couldn't access my Linux installation. But since I had a
backup of my home directory on another machine, I just nuked it and
reinstalled, then restored my home directory.
I've actually set up my Linux machines so that they mount /home on an
NFS file server in my home office. I can nuke my desktop and reinstall
it in less than 10 minutes with a kickstart, and my home directory is
unchanged. Makes it a lot easier when I do the inevitable "oops" and
screw up my desktop.
As an aside: Using KVM virtualization has eliminated a lot of those
"oops" moments. If I want to test software or something, I spin up a VM
and test it there before I do it on my actual "production" workstation.
--
Thomas
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