<p>On Apr 23, 2012 1:12 AM, "Chris Murphy" <<a href="mailto:lists@colorremedies.com">lists@colorremedies.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Apr 22, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote:<br>
> > I already have a GPT partition (from my previous installation), but<br>
> > Anaconda complains that my boot partition should be of type msdos. The<br>
> > only way to proceed seems to be discarding all partitions and creating<br>
> > an msdos partition table.<br>
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> Well that's kinda unfortunate behavior. I think the blacklist should cause just "Use All Space" to force a new or existing GPT to be MBR. But really, I've advocated the exact opposite you are, which is I think BIOS hardware with disks < 2TB should default to MBR, not GPT. There's minimal advantage, and more trouble.<br>
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> However, if you're really committed to GPT, convert the MBR to GPT using gdisk after the fact. I suggest custom partitioning to reserve 1MB unallocated. Post install, gdisk to add a BIOS Boot partition, gdisk type code 0xEF02. Then when you reinstall GRUB2, it will automatically stuff core.img in it.</p>
<p>Well.. considering that I have no special reason to want GPT, I guess it's easier to go with the Msdos partition table. It's just that it surprises me that there is no obvious way to override the default Anaconda behaviour within the installation DVD, since my laptop supports GPT.</p>
<p>My previous installation, where GPT worked just fine, was done with F16 Beta, so maybe at the time Lenovos were not blacklisted yet.</p>