Aral Balkan
Just installing Fedora Silverblue and realised that if you boot into the USB disk in legacy mode, it does a legacy install. If you boot into it in UEFI, it does a UEFI install.
Wish this was made clear in the interface and you could actually choose what you wanted. I mean, I really think UEFI should be the default no matter what these days with the option to change it if you really want to, no?
Aral Balkan
@adamw Ah, didn’t realise it was a hardware limitation. Makes sense, then.
Adam Williamson :fedora:
@aral it's not really possible to do a UEFI native install when booted in CSM mode - it's literally not possible for the installer to write a UEFI bootloader entry, the firmware does not expose the necessary interfaces.
we could make it possible to do a BIOS native install from a UEFI boot, I guess, but it seems like a weird thing to do.
Aral Balkan
@Orca My experience: BIOS allows both legacy boot and UEFI. BIOS instructions (incorrectly) state that legacy boot must be turned on to boot from USB. When legacy boot is on the USB stick is shown under both legacy and UEFI sections. The latter, for me, was less apparent so I chose the first option by mistake. Anyway, this is why the first option for folks switching to Linux should be to buy a PC with it preinstalled. Installing an OS will always be an enthusiasts game.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al Performing a legacy install on UEFI platforms or performing a UEFI install on BIOS platforms sounds moot. You can't boot it after installation (Unless you enabled CSM for BIOS install which, unfortunatelly made it much more complex to boot a hybrid medium). 🤔
It should be made clear on the interface, though. Yes.
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