UEFI Notebook

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Mon May 6 13:09:31 UTC 2013


On 05/05/2013 08:18 AM, Len Philpot wrote:
> I had to enable "CSM mode" in firmware. Your laptop may have another term for
> it. This enabled me to choose from a non-EFI boot device, which was critical
> to getting the F18 DVD to boot directly. There are apparently ways to boot
> from an EFI USB stick, then run anaconda on the DVD from there. I was finally
> able to boot from USB, but never worked out the exact device/command to get
> anaconda running.

Enabling CSM is not required, nor should it be enabled if you want to
use UEFI-mode.

You must create a UEFI-compatible USB stick, which you stated you did
not do. Pass "--efi" to the "livecd-iso-to-disk" script to do so.


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