Recently bought a zotac nano setup with an via processor.
I have been trying to install or at all boot fedora 16 without success.
As I understand boot handling with BIOS and UEFI has drastically changed in fedora 16, to previous distributions.
There are a lot of people writing knowledgeable stuff in detail about the problem - but if they know so much, why not also write down "this is how you get it working".
This butts me a lot, because it keeps me awake trying to figure stuff out.
And as I found in this case the manufacturer zotac has a update to their BIOS that might solv our problem.
But here's where I get really annoyed - why, when updating BIOS that is such a critical manoeuvre do they only supply the ROM file and a dos thingy, that might work. I've tried now in six different ways with theirs and other version of their software to run under dos and under W-XP non of them get the job done. The only thing that worked was a second supplier where the dos version was able to save a copy of existing ROM to my disc, but not upload the new one.
If I where a manufacturer of computers I would know this is an issue.
Why in God's name is it so hard to distribute new BIOS as a ISO image for "Live use"?
It would be small, simple, less support and possibly also happier customers.
Tel me I'm wrong.

first, welcome to forum!!

I will not say that you are wrong---only maybe that you are not seeing the whole picture.

Computers and components are designed and marketed based on certain assumptions about the end user. This usually includes assumptions about the OS to be used, and the likely skills of the user. The likely reason for not having a user-friendly way to update the BIOS is that it would be wasted effort for the vast majority of users.

I have not done this in a while. but I think there are Linux tools for making an MS-DOS boot disk for installing BIOSes and such.
BTW,if you can't get Linux on that particular device, don't go gunning for the seller.....I doubt that they advertised it as being Linux-friendly.