On Sat, 25 May 2019 16:08:02 -0700 stan upaitag@zoho.com wrote:
Hi, I pulled the server net install iso for rawhide, the future Fedora 31, and tried to install it. I used custom install with existing partitions on a bios partitioned disk. It refused to install because it wanted gpt and uefi.
I swap back and forth between predefined partitions, so I always have a working Fedora to fall back on. This has worked fine in the past.
Is gpt and uefi now required for install? I didn't see a way to toggle the setting.
In the end, after many machinations, neither MBR or UEFI would install, always hanging at "installing boot partition". As I mentioned, I opened a bugzilla for this, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1714828 which is still unresolved. The latest rawhide version, 20190604, still exhibits this issue.
So, I downloaded the equivalent F30 netinstall image, and it installed a minimal UEFI install flawlessly. It boots fine, so I could stop here, and just turn on the rawhide repositories to get to F31, but I think I'll keep trying candidates from rawhide, at least for a while.