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I am trying to resinstall Fedora on my laptop but when i try to partition it I get the error
No valid boot loader target device found. See below for details.
For a UEFI installation, you must include an EFI System Partition on a GPT-formatted disk, mounted at /boot/efi.
my partitioning is as follows
/home
/
/boot
/swap
which ive been using for as long as I've been manually partitioning. Even on my previous installation of 23. So what must I change to make this work?
For a UEFI installation, you must include an EFI System Partition on a GPT-formatted disk, mounted at /boot/efi.
Seems self-explanatory.
Create a [V]FAT partition, say 100Meg, mount it, install. Without even looking I'm sure there is a bunch of doco on this amongst the plethora of (excellent) Fedora docs.
If you have previously had Fedora on this machine what changed ?.
Good to see pricks still abbound in linux forums. Sorry Im not as smart as you. All hail the mighty linux Guru. I did an internet search, I even did read the man pages and I couldnt understand them.
In a nutshell UEFI/GPT has replaced the BIOS/MBR (legacy mode) in modern PCs. Using GPT/GUID overcomes the 2TB MBR disk limitation and gets rid of the extended/logical partitioning scheme. I believe the manual partitioning wizard has a file system type of BIOS Boot, the recommended size is 200MB and should be the first partition created.
The UEFI configuration should have a legacy mode which switches it back to BIOS/MBR mode if desired.
I'm not sure what happened but i had an error with the graphical environment failing to load and eventually I gave up on fixing it and tried to reinstall, when I did I tried to reuse my home directory otherwise everything was new beyond that I do not know what changed.
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