On Dec 31, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
Since you only have Fedora to boot, the simplest fix might be to delete all of the NVRAM
entries, and hope that in a reboot or two, it does sufficient garbage collection that you
can then try another installation.
Confirmed. Sorta.
The program.log info is buried in the anaconta-tb, so looking at that I see you have a
bunch of NVRAM entries you probably don't need:
17:08:21,590 INFO program: BootOrder: 0005,0006,0007,0008,0009
17:08:21,590 INFO program: Boot0000 Setup
17:08:21,591 INFO program: Boot0001 Boot Menu
17:08:21,591 INFO program: Boot0002 Diagnostic Splash Screen
17:08:21,592 INFO program: Boot0003 Rescue and Recovery
17:08:21,593 INFO program: Boot0004 Startup Interrupt Menu
17:08:21,594 INFO program: Boot0005* USB CD
17:08:21,595 INFO program: Boot0006* USB FDD
17:08:21,596 INFO program: Boot0007* ATA HDD0
17:08:21,596 INFO program: Boot0008* USB HDD
17:08:21,597 INFO program: Boot0009* PCI LAN
Thing is, I can't tell you want you can get rid of. If you efibootmgr -v it will give
their verbose listings and in theory you can replace them based on that information,
should they need to be replaced. Better would be a firmware setup option to reset NVRAM
but that seems rare outside of Apple hardware.
Pick one that seems unlikely to be used ever again for deletion, after you issue and save
the results from efibootmgr -v, and then use the form:
efibootmgr -b 000x -B
Where x is the entry you want to remove. That will delete that entry. Open question how
many of these you need to delete to release enough space in NVRAM, one or two? And another
question on how long it takes for the firmware to go garbage collection and actually make
space available in NVRAM for a new entry.
Next, try:
efibootmgr -c -w -L Fedora -d /dev/sda -p 1 -l \\EFI\\fedora\\shim.efi
And see if you get an error; and you can also reissue efibootmgr -v to see if that entry
is now in NVRAM to confirm. If there's no error, and if the entry is present in NVRAM,
remove it with efibootmgr -b xxxx -B. Then try to install Fedora 20 again and hopefully
this time it takes.
Minor observation on your bug 1006304 entries: 1. for program.log you actually posted
storage.log; 2. you set storage and program logs at least, to automatic rather than
manually setting them to plain text. It's annoying that you have to explicitly tell BZ
that what you're attaching is plain text, but you do. If you don't, then when
people click on your attachments, they download instead of being viewable in the web
browser.
Chris Murphy