Potential F14 feature: Use GPT partition table by default for "wipe complete HD" installations

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:55:37PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how about using GPT[0] partitions for F14 for all installations that wipe
> the whole disk to install Fedora? It is also considered to be good by
> Tejun Heo[1] and it seems to work nicely already on F12. I just
> partitioned a new HD using gdisk and the kernel seems to recognise it
> without any problems.

Very few BIOSes can boot from a GPT disk.  EFI/UEFI can, as can legacy
BIOS if you do something ugly like gptsync so the MBR partition table
and the GPT partition table at least somewhat agree.

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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