GPT in Fedora 16

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Aug 26 03:12:21 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 21:13 -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:17:58PM -0500, David Lehman wrote:
> > 
> > It's also true that if you create an msdos/mbr partition table on your
> > disk prior to installation and then choose any option except for "Use
> > All Space" (or "clearpart --all" in kickstart) anaconda will not destroy
> > your existing partition table.
> 
> But if you first install Fedora to a clean disk, then it will never be
> possible to later install Windows, right?

One thing I didn't answer - intentionally, as I don't know the answer -
is whether Windows will boot if you have a BIOS boot partition on a
GPT-labelled drive. It may do.
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