On Thu, 05 May 2022 13:51:47 -0000
"Elias Peiris" <epeiris(a)bigpond.com> wrote:
I am a user of Fedora 35 on an old computer. Because of low memory,
low disk space and performance reasons I would want to install Fedora
35 workstation on to a new HP desktop. The computer had pre-installed
Windows 11 (UEFI BIOS). I tried to install Fedora35 using a USB
drive. In order to see the boot menu I had to provide acpi=off at
command line. Installation to a partition went until that stopped
with the error message "Failed to set new efi boot target". Tried to
install without a Windows partition on a clean disk but got the same
error. I managed to install Debian11 with a VGA screen. My system
is Intel core i7 11 gen i7-11700@215GHz, 16G RAM with integrated
Intel UHD Graphics 750.
May I have some instructions to follow.
I am not knowledgeable about the specifics here, but from your
description it sounds like the efi partition is write protected when
the install tries to put the /boot/efi/EFI/fedora partition in place so
that fedora can boot with UEFI. Was the Debian install a UEFI install?
If you look in the /boot/efi partition from debian, is there a Debian
entry?
If the answer to both of the above is yes, then there is a bug in the
installer, because if Debian can install to the efi partition, fedora
should also be able to. Please go here,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
and enter a bug for fedora, with anaconda as the application. Make
sure to specify the hp model you are using so research can find if it
does indeed lock the efi partition.
If no, I *think* any such blockage would have a setting in the BIOS,
which is usually accessed by pressing a key during boot (F2 or Del?).
If you switch that to turn off the protection, the install should work
as it will then be able to put the fedora boot information into the efi
partition.