Another issue with install and GPT

[Red Hat]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:08:51 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> On 09/17/2011 06:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 07:52 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
>>> I accidentally sent this through a different address, so I think 
>>> it's
>>> just going to come back to me.  If it turns out to be a double 
>>> post,
>>> please forgive me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a one time fluke.  I don't have 
>>> time
>>> or hardware to do several test installs, but perhaps someone else 
>>> has
>>> experienced it.
>> There is a bug report on a very similar case here:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738964
>>
>> it does seem like there may be an issue with the detection of 
>> whether a
>> BIOS boot partition is necessary when installing from a USB stick.
>> However, please do verify this with an image written via dd or
>> livecd-iso-to-disk. We do not support unetbootin, as you said.
>
> Just performed two test of an usb key both created livecd-to-iso
>
> One network install and another one of an usb key it self ( dvd )
>
> In both the installation process itself went but both times it 
> resulted
> in anaconda installing the mbr on the usb key which leaves the user 
> with
> unbootable system ( without the key ) and totally unrecovarable ( 
> since
> they need to shrink the primary partition to create a mbr partition 
> on
> it ) .
>
> JBG
I'm confused by this result, I don't know of any reason why a 
straightforward net install from a disc would fail. What did you do 
exactly?

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