UEFI install on MBR partition scheme, was: Failed attempt to fpaste UEFI failure data

[Chris Murphy]

On Dec 14, 2013, at 5:40 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX <caf at omen.com> wrote:

> Concerning Fedora's inability to boot from UEFI and install to
> a fdisk configured disk:   A relevant error message would have
> been most useful.

Like I said, I suggest you file an RFE against Rawhid for this message: DEBUG anaconda: info bar clicked: failed to find a suitable stage1 device ((<SpokeWindow object at 0x7f1f7ecd1d20 (AnacondaSpokeWindow at 0x37d9da0)>,))

Failed to find a suitable stage1 device *is* the relevant error message, it's just that it's not sufficient plain language for the typical user to know what that means. So I'd be clear in the bug that the actual result is the above message. And the expected result is, "When EFI booted and installation destination is an MBR disk with partitions being retained, flag the user with a plain language explanation: Fedora only supports GPT partition scheme when installing from EFI booted computers." Or something like that, feel free to offer more clear, more concise plain language text that's easy to translate and isn't confusing.

Also FYI recent versions of fdisk, I think just with Fedora 20, now has both MBR and GPT support. But it does default to creating MBR (DOS), which by the way Windows and OS X installers definitely will not let you install their systems to when UEFI booted either. UEFI booted systems require GPT in practice.


Chris Murphy