Fedora 37 installation fails on Mac devices

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Problem

If you try to install Fedora 37 on Mac hardware (Macbook, Mac Mini, iMac), the installation will fail towards the end with an error like this:

BootloaderInstallationError: Failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel or firmware bug.

Note: This issue is only relevant to Mac devices with an Intel CPU. Mac devices with an Apple ARM (M*) CPU are not supported at all (Fedora Asahi SIG is working on supporting those).

Cause

Not yet known.

Related Issues

Bugzilla report: 2142968 – pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.installation.BootloaderInstallationError: Failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel or firmware bug.

Workarounds

Install Fedora 36 and upgrade. Alternatively, install Fedora 38 (once it’s released).

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