Fedora 19 Alpha RC2 UEFI Fail

[Adam Williamson]

On 10/04/13 05:50 PM, Brian Fagioli wrote:
> When I installed it on the same machine without UEFI, it booted fine. Running it now.
>
> 10.04.13, 20:47, "John Reiser" <jreiser at bitwagon.com>":
>>
>>> Fails at Grub. Missing file. En.mo.gz
>>
>> That message probably is just informative, and not the cause of
>> failing to boot.  The same message occurs in many successful
>> boots of current release Fedora 18.
>>
>> Right now the suspected culprit of failing to boot Fedora 19
>> is somewhere in passing control of the active video graphics
>> from one stage to the next.

It seems that every tester who doesn't hit the 'ENOSPC' issue and gets a 
successful install hits this issue where grub fails to display instead. 
So far the only bootable UEFI install I've heard of is one tflink did 
where he set grub up to use a serial console.

The bug report for this problem is 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949761 , we're poking at it 
there. One thing the devs would like people to try is:

<pjones>: adamw: get them to try putting "GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console" 
in /etc/default/grub and re-running grub2-mkconfig

you could do that from ctrl-alt-f2 after install is complete but before 
rebooting, or you could do it from rescue mode or a live image on the 
installed system. The theory is that by disabling grub's graphical mode 
we'll work around whatever the problem is, and hence prove that the 
problem is with the graphical mode.

If anyone actually got an entirely successful UEFI install with Alpha 
RC1 or RC2 - it installed without errors, and the installed system 
boots, showing you a graphical grub screen - that would be useful info 
to add to the bug; right now I'm working on the assumption that this is 
a complete showstopper for all UEFI installs.
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