Well....

that command gets:

WARNING: UEFI firmware can not be updated in legacy BIOS mode

Then I get a url for fwupd...

Oh, the ethernet is working.  Seems it got unplugged from the switch.  Ooops.

Anything else I should try before looking into firmware ver on this box?  Like how to find that out without rebooting and going into system settings...

On 7/17/23 13:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:25 AM Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> wrote:
this system had F22 on it.

I just went through all the steps to blow away the old partitions and
install F38.

It tried for maybe an hour with the spindizzy on "Installing boot loader".

If finally came back with a dialog box with an error of:

The following error occurred while installing the boot loader.  The
system will not be bootable.  Would you like to ignore this and continue
with the installation?

Failed to set new efi boot target.  This is most likely a kernel or
firmware bug.

No|Yes

What should I do at this point.  It IS an old system that has had a
number of ver of Fedora on it.  It was booting F22 just fine, it seemed
but now it is all gone...
You can check if the system provides EFI variables using fwupdmgr. It
will look something like:

$ sudo fwupdmgr get-devices 2>&1 | grep -i -E 'UEFI|BIOS'
   │   Summary:            UEFI ESRT device
   └─UEFI dbx:
         Summary:          UEFI revocation database
         Vendor:           UEFI:Linux Foundation
         GUIDs:            c6682ade-b5ec-57c4-b687-676351208742 ←
UEFI\CRT_A1117F516A32CEFCBA3F2D1ACE10A87972FD6BBE8FE0D0B996E09E65D802A503
                           f8ba2887-9411-5c36-9cee-88995bb39731 ←
UEFI\CRT_A1117F516A32CEFCBA3F2D1ACE10A87972FD6BBE8FE0D0B996E09E65D802A503&ARCH_X64

There may be other ways to determine if EFI is available.

Jeff
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