f16 installer message

[Scott Robbins]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:54:29PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
>   You are using a GPT bootdisk on a non-EFI system without a
>   BIOS boot partition. This may not work, depending on your
>   BIOS's support for booting from GPT disks.
> 
> Absolutely no one here has a clue what any of this means :-).

This will, hopefully, be documented.


Thanks for proving a point I made on the forums.  I mentioned that I
found the message to be somewhat obscure. 

It means you have to let it create a 1 or 2 MB BIOS slice or it won't
work.  :)


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