[olug] Announcing Fedora 13 (fwd)

Roger Hubbard hubbardroger at msn.com
Mon May 31 16:02:45 UTC 2010


the Fedora 13 install guide really doesn't say that EFI is used/enabled for all installs.

I didn't answer your question...

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F.2.1. The BIOS
When an x86 computer is booted, the processor looks at the end of system memory for the Basic
Input/Output System or BIOS program and runs it. The BIOS controls not only the first step of the boot
process, but also provides the lowest level interface to peripheral devices. For this reason it is written
into read-only, permanent memory and is always available for use.

Other platforms use different programs to perform low-level tasks roughly equivalent to those of
the BIOS on an x86 system. For instance, Itanium-based computers use the Extensible Firmware
Interface (EFI) Shell.
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Roger



On May 31, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Roger Hubbard wrote:

> 
> I've opened two ISO's that I have.
> There is an EFI folder within the Fedora 13 AND the Fedora 11 images.
>   (Fedora-13-x86_64-Live.iso)
> 
> Fedora wants to use GRUB legacy...  not GRUB2
> 
> I can bring a Ubuntu 64bit   10.4  disk
> and a KUbuntu 64bit  10.4 disk
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> 
> On May 31, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Cheyenne wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know if Fedora13 is EFI compatable? If not could I borrow someone's Ubuntu 10 64bit installer disk at the meeting?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 2:57 PM
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Announcing Fedora 13 (fwd)
>> 
>> I believe BTRFS is being marked as stable in the next kernel release. Fedora
>> is a community distro that lives close to the bleeding edge.
>> 
>> I wouldn't put anything super-critical on a BTRFS partition without
>> a backup, but then again, that is part of the appearl of BTRFS, that you can
>> go back to earlier snapshots of the same files. In fact, I believe with this
>> Fedora release, there is a package you can install to manage the snapshots
>> of files from within Nautilus.
>> 
>> If you plan to boot from a BTRFS partition, you will also need a GRUB patch
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