On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:12 PM WMU Bavaria <j...@zeff.us> wrote: > > > > On 01/30/2022 10:00 PM Aaron <ad...@siegel-tech.net> wrote: > > > If your computer was shipped with Windows 8 (release date 2012) or newer it > > most likely has an UEFI capable bios. > > My laptop shipped with Windows Vista installed, long before UEFI was invented.
Intel EFI ~1998 Tiano - 2004 UEFI 2.0 - 2005 Windows Vista - 2007 Windows 7 - 2009 In fact Vista was the first version of Windows to have EFI support, but the vast majority of (U)EFI systems of this era shipped with a Compatibility Support Module (CSM) enabled by default to present a faux-BIOS to the operating system. A 10 year old laptop is ~2011 which would put it in the Windows 7 era, and had substantially improved UEFI support. Anyway, I'm willing to bet this laptop has an MBR with a 1st partition starting at an LBA less than 2048, therefore there isn't enough room for modern GRUB to embed in the small MBR gap of this era. You can remedy this by offering up the 1st partition to Anaconda for deletion. When a new 1st partition is created as part of the installation, probably for /boot, it will start at LBA 2048 which will provide a large enough MBR gap for GRUB to be installed. fdisk -l /dev/sdX -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
