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Hello,
I must have one of the last motherboards made (from 2013) that is legacy BIOS/MBR
only.
I didn’t realize that the recent distros’ are uefi only (does fedora use or require secure boot?)

Since I had already downloaded the iso, I burned a USB with rufus and booting from it failed miserably.
Undaunted, I burned the iso to a DVD and rebooted. This time, the “Live” environment booted up and it looks beautiful.

The “install” option is available.

What would happen if I tried the install? Is the system mocking me?

Thanks for any info

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You can install in ‘legacy’ mode, using ‘mbr’ partitioning.

Fedora does not require secure boot.

3

You’ll have to put that to the test :wink:

4

Hi thanks for responding. I found this post that mentions that the installer
may not allow me to choose the particular disk to contain the grub/bootloader

I have a peculiar setup with two HDD’s, the default boot disk contains the
Windows 10 boot loader, WIndows 10 and Linux partition (currently ubuntu).
The second HDD contains Grub (and misc. data partitions).

I can boot from the second HDD by hitting f11 during the system Post.
(My wife uses Windows 10 so this method works better for us)

My plan is to install Fedora on the first drive reusing the ubuntu partition and
install grub on the 2nd HDD as it is now.

Am I going to run into a problem as inferred from the post?

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That post says to use the Netinstall image to install. From Netinstall you can choose which desktop and it will download it for you at install time.

The issue might also be fixed in F43, which is Beta, full version out in a couple of weeks. F43 is running well from my experience.

I can’t help much with dual booting Windoze, I deleted all those help files from my memory :wink: But the answers are all here on the forum.

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I don’t think there’s a fix yet. But I’m just basing that on reading the Bugzilla tickets linked from the common issue (2352573 and 2359710), maybe there has been some work in the background.

The netinstall / “Everything ISO” sounds like a good plan.

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Hello - the post contains this paragraph:

“if you need to install Fedora to multiple drives (i.e. a multi-disk layout), and the bootloader should be on a non-first drive, then you must use the GTK version of the installer. You can download the Network Installer (Everything netinst) install image, that allows you to install any Edition or Spin.”

This seems to apply to me since my linux partiton and Grub are on two
different drives. OK, I’ll look into it

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