I am a user of Fedora 35 on an old computer. Because of low memory, low disk space and performance reasons I would want to install Fedora 35 workstation on to a new HP desktop. The computer had pre-installed Windows 11 (UEFI BIOS). I tried to install Fedora35 using a USB drive. In order to see the boot menu I had to provide acpi=off at command line. Installation to a partition went until that stopped with the error message "Failed to set new efi boot target". Tried to install without a Windows partition on a clean disk but got the same error. I managed to install Debian11 with a VGA screen. My system is Intel core i7 11 gen i7-11700@215GHz, 16G RAM with integrated Intel UHD Graphics 750.
May I have some instructions to follow.
On Thu, 05 May 2022 13:51:47 -0000 "Elias Peiris" epeiris@bigpond.com wrote:
I am a user of Fedora 35 on an old computer. Because of low memory, low disk space and performance reasons I would want to install Fedora 35 workstation on to a new HP desktop. The computer had pre-installed Windows 11 (UEFI BIOS). I tried to install Fedora35 using a USB drive. In order to see the boot menu I had to provide acpi=off at command line. Installation to a partition went until that stopped with the error message "Failed to set new efi boot target". Tried to install without a Windows partition on a clean disk but got the same error. I managed to install Debian11 with a VGA screen. My system is Intel core i7 11 gen i7-11700@215GHz, 16G RAM with integrated Intel UHD Graphics 750.
May I have some instructions to follow.
I am not knowledgeable about the specifics here, but from your description it sounds like the efi partition is write protected when the install tries to put the /boot/efi/EFI/fedora partition in place so that fedora can boot with UEFI. Was the Debian install a UEFI install? If you look in the /boot/efi partition from debian, is there a Debian entry?
If the answer to both of the above is yes, then there is a bug in the installer, because if Debian can install to the efi partition, fedora should also be able to. Please go here, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and enter a bug for fedora, with anaconda as the application. Make sure to specify the hp model you are using so research can find if it does indeed lock the efi partition.
If no, I *think* any such blockage would have a setting in the BIOS, which is usually accessed by pressing a key during boot (F2 or Del?). If you switch that to turn off the protection, the install should work as it will then be able to put the fedora boot information into the efi partition.
You might need to look into the computers EFI setup options. I had a machine that recently had the on board battery go dead, and on restart it would not boot from the hard disk?? The setup had somehow gone to a default setting, in which it was set for the primary boot to be windows EFI?? Machine had never had windows installed and wasn't setup for EFI boot with linux. Just changed the setting, and actually went ahead and disabled the windows EFI option completely. So, might be a setting that has it looking for windows EFI only by default. Took me a while to find option..
Good Luck.
On 5 May 2022 at 13:51, Elias Peiris wrote:
Subject: Request help to install Fedora35 workstation on a new HP desktop From: "Elias Peiris" epeiris@bigpond.com To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date sent: Thu, 05 May 2022 13:51:47 -0000 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org
I am a user of Fedora 35 on an old computer. Because of low memory, low disk space and performance reasons I would want to install Fedora 35 workstation on to a new HP desktop. The computer had pre-installed Windows 11 (UEFI BIOS). I tried to install Fedora35 using a USB drive. In order to see the boot menu I had to provide acpi=off at command line. Installation to a partition went until that stopped with the error message "Failed to set new efi boot target". Tried to install without a Windows partition on a clean disk but got the same error. I managed to install Debian11 with a VGA screen. My system is Intel core i7 11 gen i7-11700@215GHz, 16G RAM with integrated Intel UHD Graphics 750.
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