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

[Karel Zak]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:25:45PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 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. 

 Urban legend...

> 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.

 The problem is old grub.

    Karel

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