F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 14:31 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > Do early 17 DVDs work for you? Have you tried?
> 
> This is the first Fedora 17 disk I have tried.
> 
> > The 17 Beta TCs should still be available at stage/, and the
> > Alpha is of course available 'officially'.
> 
> I didn't bother with any of the alphas. Particularly, because of the /usr/lib 
> stuff, I wanted that all to be well ironed out before I give anything a try.

Could you try one? Just so we can narrow down the failure.

> > Were you booting EFI or BIOS?
> 
> There was never any way for me to make a selection. I would like to move my 
> system over to EFI, since it is supposed to be more advanced, but I don't know 
> how to migrate. I read that you have to have a special partition set up for it 
> and I don't know whether the installer will do it or whether I should create 
> one first.

It's a system firmware level thing. Fedora / anaconda have no control
over the choice. How you select EFI or BIOS-compatible boot on an EFI
capable system is entirely up to that system's particular firmware to
decide, and it varies from system to system.

On mine, for instance, temporary storage devices which are EFI bootable
(talking USB sticks, DVDs, CDs) show up twice in the 'bios' boot menu,
once with 'UEFI' as a prefix. If I pick that option, I get an EFI boot
of the device in question. if I pick the other, I get a BIOS-compatible
boot of it.
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