Confused with UEFI, GPT, SSD, grub, et. al.

Mon Sep 5 02:04:19 UTC 2011

On 09/04/2011 07:38 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> So, if I do all that, what is the process like to get
> fedora 15 installed on such a drive? Fedora 15 hasn't
> gone to grub2, so I don't know if the f15 grub understands
> and new magical uefi style boot procedure (I know I
> certainly don't, I merely hear vague things about it:-).

Install Fedora 15 normally.

> Am I better off not trying to understand anything and
> just letting anaconda figure it all out? Will it do
> a good job with the SSD disk without manual intervention?

Anaconda will not have any alignment issues. They were solved several 
releases ago.

P.S. Fedora 16 will use grub legacy for UEFI/GPT as grub2 has 
outstanding bugs with it.