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

[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…