Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 5/7/24 02:29, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-07-04 18:18, Mike Wright a écrit : On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-05 Thread Felix Miata
François Patte composed on 2024-07-05 18:14 (UTC+0200): > how can I boot the installer as a BIOS boot? First ensure that the BIOS has CSM (legacy boot, by whatever name used) enabled. After exiting setup, hit the BBS hotkey during POST, which will present a boot device selection menu. Choose the

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jul 5, 2024, at 12:15, François Patte wrote: > Yes! But how can I boot the installer as a BIOS boot? You would need to either turn off UEFI boot in the BIOS or choose a special boot option upon boot. It is entirely up to your hardware - Fedora can’t do anything about it once it’s booted the

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-05 Thread François Patte
Le 2024-07-05 13:28, Jonathan Billings a écrit : On Jul 5, 2024, at 04:00, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-07-05 03:03, Tide Ka a écrit : Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because an

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jul 5, 2024, at 04:00, François Patte wrote: > > Le 2024-07-05 03:03, Tide Ka a écrit : >>> Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with >>> some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? >>> (because anaconda is unable to ignore the wind

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-05 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2024-07-04 at 18:09 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk > with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot > system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) It's been ages since I dual-

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-05 Thread François Patte
Le 2024-07-05 03:03, Tide Ka a écrit : Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) That (dual-boot) is based upon anaconda's behavi

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Tide Ka via users
Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) That (dual-boot) is based upon anaconda's behaviour. Basically it is about telling bo

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 16:30, Mike Wright wrote: --> EFI EXPLAINED <-- I just found this collection of pages about EFI. If you learn all of this you will know more about EFI than all but a miniscule percentage of humanity. https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html -- ___

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 11:37, Tim via users wrote: If you install other OSs, they should do something similar. You'd have something like: ... EFI/debian ... EFI/fedora Which should keep all the OSs separate from each other. If you wanted dual booting different versions of Fedora, without one sto

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/4/24 2:25 PM, Tim via users wrote: And for what it's worth, on the newly installed Fedora 40 (after a fight and half), it's not mounted on /boot/efi, but inside it (like my CentOS example did). i.e. /boot/efi/EFI/fedora That's a clean install, so it does that itself. We could have simply

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > EFI is its own partition, that will be mounted inside /boot when Linux > > boots. I'm not actually sure why that decision was made, I don't see > > why we couldn't have just had /EFI. I suppose someone wanted to hide > > all the boot things in /boot. On this PC, it's wierdly nested, so

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/4/24 11:37 AM, Tim via users wrote: EFI is its own partition, that will be mounted inside /boot when Linux boots. I'm not actually sure why that decision was made, I don't see why we couldn't have just had /EFI. I suppose someone wanted to hide all the boot things in /boot. On this PC, it

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Tim via users
Mike Wright: > > I *think* that there can be only one /boot/efi partition on a disk. François Patte: > So how can we proceed when you want a dual (fedora/fedora, > fedora/debian, fedora.ubuntu) boot on the same disk? The idea is there is just one boot/efi on a system (even if you have multip

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 09:29, François Patte wrote: Le 2024-07-04 18:18, Mike Wright a écrit : On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread François Patte
Le 2024-07-04 18:18, Mike Wright a écrit : On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) I *th

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/4/24 09:09, François Patte wrote: Should I understand that if you have a windows installation on a disk with some (big) space left, you cannot install f40 as a dual boot system? (because anaconda is unable to ignore the windows partition) I *think* that there can be only one /boot/efi pa

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread François Patte
Le 2024-07-04 16:51, Tide Ka via users a écrit : Hello: 1-It seems (for me) that anaconda takes into accompt the sd[ab]1,2 partitions and does not accept the BIOS boot config and I can't say to anaconda to ignore these partitions: it rejects /boot (because not /boot/efi) and rejects / because

Re: isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread Tide Ka via users
Hello: 1-It seems (for me) that anaconda takes into accompt the sd[ab]1,2 partitions and does not accept the BIOS boot config and I can't say to anaconda to ignore these partitions: it rejects /boot (because not /boot/efi) and rejects / because lvm on RAID1 array. For this question I think t

isues with f40 install

2024-07-04 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I am stuck trying to installe f40 on my computer. I have 4 disks, 2 SSD and 2 HDD. On the SSDs run a fedora 36 install *which I want to keep untill the f40 will be installed and configured.* On the SSDs 2 partitions: 1) sda1 sdb1, 1Gb RAID1 array as /boot for the f36 install 2) sd