RC1 and UEFI

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX caf at omen.com
Fri Dec 13 23:02:46 UTC 2013


On 12/13/2013 02:44 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 02:02 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>> On 12/12/2013 04:53 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 16:49 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>>>> Could you be more specific about what information you need
>>>> and how I might get this information?
>>> In your initial description you wrote "Anaconda cannot modify
>>> the hard drive when booted UEFI." This is a somewhat odd description,
>>> and impossible to interpret without more details. What exactly do you
>>> mean by it? Can you please describe, in detail and from start to finish,
>>> what you did and what happened, rather than a cryptic one-liner? And,
>>> ideally, post the usual anaconda debugging logs - anaconda.log ,
>>> program.log , storage.log etc etc from a failed install attempt. Thanks.
>> The first thing I do when the Anaconda screen comes up
>> is to select the hard drive and repartition it.  I select standard
>> partitions and then custom partitioning.  When booting under
>> UEFI Anaconda cannot modify the hard drive in any onbious
>> way.
> I still can't really understand what you mean by 'cannot modify the hard
> drive in any obvious way'. Are you saying it does not display any
> existing partitions? Can you provide a screenshot or a precise
> description of what you see, and how it looks different in a BIOS
> install?
>
>> Please provide the name of a command that sends the required
>> files to Red Hat when this happens.
> There actually is a somewhat obscure utility in anaconda that was meant
> to do this, but I don't think it works any more. As long as you have a
> network connection, you can just switch to ctrl-alt-f2, find the log
> files in /tmp , and 'fpaste' or 'scp' them out.
I ran fpaste *.log from the /tmp directory.
There were error messages.
If it worked you should have the results.

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