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Installation issues

DVD or network install image written to USB stick with livecd-iso-to-disk does not boot via UEFI

link to this item - Bugzilla: #796419

If you write the Fedora 17 Alpha DVD or network install image to a USB drive using the livecd-iso-to-disk tool provided in the Package-x-generic-16.pnglivecd-tools package (whatever version of Fedora you write the image from), using the --efi parameter which should result in a drive that can be booted via UEFI, it will not in fact succeed in booting the installer if booted via UEFI. After the bootloader menu is displayed, you will see a Error 15: File not found message.

An updated livecd-tools package has been submitted to the updates-testing repository for testing. Users experiencing this problem are encouraged to test this update and livecd-tools whether it solves the problem. To test the update, run this command:

su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update (name)'

The update is currently available only for Fedora 17, but if testing is successful it will be made available for Fedora 15 and Fedora 16. The drive will boot correctly to the installer if booted via BIOS or UEFI BIOS emulation, and if you specifically need to boot via UEFI, an image written via dd or a live image written via livecd-iso-to-disk --efi should work.