Unless there is a bug in anaconda, that smells a lot like UEFI. Did you boot in BIOS/Legacy mode or UEFI when windows 8 were installed? What were your BIOS settings with regard to that and SecureBoot?
There are some issues with recent Lenovo laptops, UEFI and linux. 2014-11-30 19:09 GMT+02:00 Christopher <ctubbsii-fed...@apache.org>: > Hi all, > > I was testing installing Fedora 21 Final RC1 in the free space on a GPT > drive with Windows 8.1 (Lenovo Z40). I'm installing from a USB stick made > from the ISO. > > Every time I click "Begin Installation" in Anaconda, it locks up at the > screen where I'm supposed to be able to enter the root password and create > a user account. The message at the bottom is something like "Initializing > setup configuration" (sorry, I can't recall the exact words). I can't click > on anything in Anaconda, but I can switch to a terminal and "kill -9 <pid > of anaconda>" to drop me back to the Live desktop. > > I do not get the same problem if I delete all the existing partitions on > the drive and install only Fedora. That proceeds fine. The problem only > seems to exist if I try to install alongside Windows. > > My question is: how might I go about troubleshooting this? > > -- > Christopher L Tubbs II > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >
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