Talk: Fedora 42 Workstation installer only supports BIOS-style bootloader on the first disk

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

This is a discussion topic for the following Common Issue:

Fedora 42 Workstation installer only supports BIOS-style bootloader on the first disk

Problem Fedora 42 Workstation features a new “webUI” installer front-end. Compared to the old GTK interface, it currently misses the option to select which disk a bootloader will be installed onto (which only affects systems in BIOS mode, where bootloader needs to be installed to the disk; it doesn’t affect systems in UEFI mode). When booting the installer in BIOS mode and when having multiple drives, the installer will insist that the bootloader (the biosboot partition on GPT drives) must be i…

You can discuss the problem and its solutions here, but please note that debugging and technical feedback should primarily go to the issue trackers (e.g. Bugzilla) linked in the Common Issue, because that’s the place that developers watch, not here.

If there are any updates/changes/amendments for the Common Issue description, which you believe should be performed, please post it here.

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

Please see the Common Issue for solution/workarounds:

Fedora 42 Workstation installer only supports BIOS-style bootloader on the first disk

Problem Fedora 42 Workstation features a new “webUI” installer front-end. Compared to the old GTK interface, it currently misses the option to select which disk a bootloader will be installed onto (which only affects systems in BIOS mode, where bootloader needs to be installed to the disk; it doesn’t affect systems in UEFI mode). When booting the installer in BIOS mode and when having multiple drives, the installer will insist that the bootloader (the biosboot partition on GPT drives) must be i…

[augenauf (Flo)]

Another workaround, if you want to install from a live image, would be to install F41 and upgrade to F42 (postponing the fresh install to F43, when the issue is fixed).