Another Fedora 18 Alpha story

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 18:09 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> 2012-09-17 17:40 keltezéssel, Bruno Wolff III írta:
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:38:33 -0400,
> >   Timothy Davis <cpuobsessed at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> My system is an older Athlon FX-60 on a socket 939 nforce4 motherboard
> >> with two SATA drives and one IDE hard drive
> >> I wanted to install F18 on the IDE drive (140Gb WD) and went through
> >> the steps and selected a number of packages to install
> >> It appeared to installed just fine but when I went to boot into F18 it
> >> didn't exist! I booted into my F17 install and checked the disk
> >> with palimpset and it didn't find any partitions. I selected the
> >> automatic partitioning and made sure that there were no partitions on
> >> the disk when I started.
> >
> > Is the IDE drive your boot device?
> >
> > My first guess would be that it's booting off one of the sata drives, whose bootloader 
> > doesn't know about f18 on the IDE drive.
> 
> "No partitions" would be a hint of a GPT partitioning scheme.
> For Fedora 16, the "nogpt" boot option to Anaconda existed
> and it made the installer use MSDOS partitioning instead.
> A lot of mainboards cannot boot off a GPT partition.

Doubt it, we dropped the GPT experiment. 18, like 17, uses MS-DOS labels
in most cases, it'll only use GPT for EFI installs or disks of 3TB+ (or
whatever the line is, I forget - really freaking huge disks.)
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