From the Esotarica Department, hope this saves other peoples' hair.
My use of dumpster diver equipment is well documented. Am currently
installing CentOS 7 1511 to a customer's _new_ machine. In order for
the hardware to allow a boot from USB, one must choose UEFI as
underlying hardware boot protocol (as opposed to BIOS). So there is an
additional disk partitioning requirement when installing an OS to a UEFI
system - a requirement that a BIOS type wouldn't know of nor would
anyone who just lets the system format the disk automagically. The
first partition (/dev/sda1) must be a vfat partition (FAT32) of at least
100MB and that partition must be labeled as /boot/efi. One may then
explicitly create a boot partition (likely /dev/sda2) labeled as /boot.
I only learned of this as a result of having dropped back to CentOS 7
1503 after multiple attempts at 1511; the 1503 version politely told me
of the absence of the /boot/efi partition which allowed me further
investigation. 1511 just pukes out some random python malfunction.
Never a dull moment.
Howard
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