On Sat, 25 May 2019 16:08:02 -0700
stan <upaitag(a)zoho.com> wrote:
Hi,
I pulled the server net install iso for rawhide, the future Fedora 31,
and tried to install it. I used custom install with existing
partitions on a bios partitioned disk. It refused to install because
it wanted gpt and uefi.
I swap back and forth between predefined partitions, so I always have
a working Fedora to fall back on. This has worked fine in the past.
Is gpt and uefi now required for install? I didn't see a way to
toggle the setting.
In the end, after many machinations, neither MBR or UEFI would install,
always hanging at "installing boot partition". As I mentioned, I
opened a bugzilla for this,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1714828
which is still unresolved. The latest rawhide version, 20190604, still
exhibits this issue.
So, I downloaded the equivalent F30 netinstall image, and it installed
a minimal UEFI install flawlessly. It boots fine, so I could stop here,
and just turn on the rawhide repositories to get to F31, but I think
I'll keep trying candidates from rawhide, at least for a while.