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

[Manuel Wolfshant]

Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:34:59AM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
>   
>> 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...
>>     
>
> I am also pretty sure that a BIOS does not consider the partition table
> to boot,
I can vouch for at least 2 Intel based motherboards which do not boot 
unless a) there exists a partition table and b) one partition is marked 
as active

however, to be honest, those are OLD mobos and probably not relevant any 
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