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#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 21
Component: get.fp.o | Keywords:
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Please add a prominent warning advising users to be consistent in their
usage of UEFI or CSM (BIOS) style installation when booting multiple
operating systems. Whether by misconception, firmware quirks, poor media
creation tools, or accident, users have been consistently reporting issues
with booting their Windows installations after installing Fedora. I have
observed that a significant number of these issues relate to the user
"disabling UEFI" to install Fedora, then discovering that their UEFI
installation of Windows no longer boots. Browse through
ask.fedoraproject.org for Windows related questions, and you'll see how
prevalent these issues are.
There is documentation under development to further explain the issues
involved, but it would be hugely beneficial to have a simple warning to be
consistent displayed when the Fedora image is downloaded. Maybe in
download-splash?
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#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 21
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Comment (by cydrobolt):
Totally agree with immanetize. The issue actually occurred to me once. I
had to wipe the disk and restart from scratch.
The download-splash would be the logical place to put a warning; but it
doesn't seem like a place it would fit in. We can put it under the link,
but it would look a bit awkward. We would also place a link to "please
read me" under the download link.
What do you think? We could have a question saying "are you using an UEFI
system? (are you dual-booting with Windows 8.x?)", then use jQuery to
slide down a notice about being consistent with BIOS/UEFI.
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#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 21
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Comment (by robyduck):
I may be wrong, but isn't that something which goes under an Installation
Guide? We don't have the Installation Guide on the websites, but we have a
link, for example, to [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-
US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media.html To install
Fedora using a USB stick, follow these instructions].
IMO we provide the images and tell people what to do with them, but not
how to install them on different machines, with specific configurations or
other Operating Systems. That should be topics to put in the Installation
Guide (and we link to it too).
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#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 21
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Comment (by cydrobolt):
People rarely read the installation guide, though. I personally think this
should be put as a splash in Anaconda.
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12:38 p.m.
#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 21
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Comment (by immanetize):
This is definitely a topic that should be addressed in the Installation
Guide, and we are drafting a Multiboot Guide as well. Both of these will
give detail and context. When the multiboot-guide is published, it might
even be a good idea to link to it from the website as well - but that's
for another day.
For the Website, a very simple admonition should be sufficient. What
about a bubble with something like:
"For best results using Fedora with other operating systems, be
consistent. Do not disable UEFI to install Fedora if your computer is
preinstalled with an operating system that uses UEFI.
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#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 21
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Comment (by immanetize):
Robert and I talked about this on IRC; I'm going to write an article for
docs.fp.o that can be linked from the website.
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3:27 p.m.
#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
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Changes (by robyduck):
* milestone: Fedora 21 =>
* priority: critical => major
Comment:
Could you give us an update for this task?
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3:34 p.m.
#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
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Comment (by immanetize):
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/22/html/Multiboot_Guide/BOOT-
BIOS_or_UEFI.html might cover the relevant points. I'll probably have it
updated for F23 by GA.
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4:02 p.m.
#274: UEFI consistency warning
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Reporter: immanetize | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: get.fp.o | Resolution: worksforme
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Changes (by robyduck):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => worksforme
Comment:
Wow I totally missed this. I think it's all fine now, if we can do
anything feel free to reopen it on pagure.
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