On 05/06/2013 at 12:54 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike(a)cchtml.com> wrote:
You're making this even more confusing to anyone reading this
thread.
You specifically stated:
> This enabled me to choose from a non-EFI boot device, which was critical to
getting the F18 DVD to boot directly.
Yes, but I never said the USB stick was *that* device. I never got the USB
stick to boot until I 'dd-ed' the EFI image to it using an F18 installation I
have in Virtual Box on my Win7 PC. Enabling CSM (Compatibility Support Mode)
on my ASUS laptop enabled me to boot the Fedora 18 **DVD** with anaconda
starting properly after choosing it from the grub menu, as it should. With EFI
enabled (and CSM disabled), booting from the EFI DVD device gave me a grub
prompt but nothing beyond it. The DVD would just spin down after I tried to
start the install. Every time.
You boot the DVD image and it automatically launches anaconda that
resides on
it.
Not in my case, it didn't. Not from the outset. The very first time I tried I
got grub, hit Enter and waited. Nothing other than the DVD finally spinning
down ever happened. It just sat there. Forever. And that was a DVD built from
a validated ISO downloaded from the Fedora site, BTW
(Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso).
find... I don't know what else we can do to make it simpler.
Once I (inadvertently) got rid of the EFI partition, it was perfectly simple.
:-) Of course, having full package selection available *within* the installer
instead of having add them later would be nice, but I digress... Plus the
help I received on the Fedora Forums was, well, helpful instead of
argumentative. I see no reason to bicker any further - It's installed and
running fine. The fact that it just so happens to be in legacy mode is less
than irrelevant to me.
Thanks for the help; I'm done on this topic.
--
Len Philpot
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