I have developed a procedure for installing a new fedora that insures anaconda cannot possibly screw up my disks: I install in a virtual machine, guestmount the virtual image then rsync the new fedora to the real partition and edit grub and fstab parameters.
I don't yet know if the new computer I'm building supports old fashioned MSDOS booting, or if I'll finally be forced to go with EFI.
I'm wondering if it is remotely possible to do the same sort of install with EFI booting. I assume I'd need the qemu EFI bios so the virtual machine is set up for EFI booting. Would efibootmgr be able to fix things after the copy? Anyone ever done this?
On 11/28/19 3:08 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
I'm wondering if it is remotely possible to do the same sort of install with EFI booting. I assume I'd need the qemu EFI bios so the virtual machine is set up for EFI booting. Would efibootmgr be able to fix things after the copy? Anyone ever done this?
Yes, you would have to use the EFI mode in qemu to do the install. You might also have to create an entry in the real BIOS with efibootmgr to be able to boot it, although it should automatically be created for you if the BIOS boots off the disk without having an entry. The boot system is setup to detect that situation and create the entry for you.
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