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Fedora 17 UEFI installation fail - help?

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I am new to Linux and fairly new to computers. My laptop is an ASUS N56V and has UEFI BIOS (I did not know this ahead of time). I downloaded fedora 17 to a live CD and set my BIOS to run the disk drive first. Went and installed fedora 17 as dual boot so I could still use windows by shrinking the windows partition and then using the free space for fedora. However, when it got to the part of the installation where it told me to restart the laptop and it would finish installing / work, I restarted and it did nothing. I check my BIOS and the only option available is disk drive and UEFI disk drive. (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 10/03/2012

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