On Mon, 27 May 2019 10:18:43 -0700
Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Right. Nothing has changed in the media here AFAIK. If you boot from
the firmware to the Fedora install media in a UEFI-native way, the
installer will boot UEFI-native and require you to do a UEFI-native
install. If you boot from the firmware to the Fedora install media in
a BIOS-native way, the installer will boot BIOS-native and require
you to do a BIOS-native install.
This isn't something we (Fedora) control, it's between you and your
system's firmware. Either you aren't writing your install media and/or
booting them quite the same as you did before, or your firmware's
configuration has changed somehow from preferring BIOS-native boot to
UEFI-native boot. You should be able to find a way to do a BIOS-native
boot in the firmware UI somewhere, though.
I think the last time I did a fresh install, I must have been using
BIOS on a BIOS formatted disk. This time, I was able to disable UEFI,
but then discovered that the disk was formatted with GPT, and that
caused problems for the installer. The media isn't the problem since
it passed both the burn check and the install check, and seems to work
fine otherwise. I'm not sure why UEFI would have had problems with
pre-existing ext4 partitions on a GPT formatted disk, but it does and
refuses to proceed.
I'll keep plugging away. Thanks.