On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 21:23 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:02:07PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
I'm pretty sure this is a Intel firmware bug, but it'd be nice to be able to confirm that somehow..
Well, either the bootloader or the kernel (or something after that) is not succeeding If Windows works in UEFI mode on the machine, then we would still consider it to be a bug we should fix, even if the firmware fails to comply to precisely to our previous interpretation of the spec.
I'll try installing Windows aswell.
I just tried Win7 SP1 x64, and it seems to install and work OK in UEFI mode. After installation I verified it had created GPT system partition, and also I used "bcdedit" to verify windows has booted using bootmgfw.efi and winload.efi.
So yes, win7 works in UEFI mode, but f16/f17/rhel63 x64 fail in UEFI mode.
Should I open a fedora bugzilla ticket?
Probably - but first, could you try booting the iso at http://pjones.fedorapeople.org/sb/boot-sb4.iso ? It's using a boot process that's a bit different (and more like what F18 will have), so and the code is different enough that there's some chance any given bug is incidentally fixed.