GPT in Fedora 16

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 08/25/2011 08:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:

> To boot to a GPT disk from BIOS (rather than EFI) you need a BIOS boot
> partition. If you use one of the automatic partitioning methods, rather
> than manual partitioning, F16's installer will create one for you. If
> you choose manual partitioning on a BIOS system and don't create a BIOS
> boot partition, anaconda will pop up a (somewhat cryptic) warning.

FWIW, there are bugs on Macintoshes of the sort "can't have GPT, but 
also can't have MBR", and the Linux-on-Mac people came up with the 
hybrid GPT/MBR partitioning, i.e. partition data that looks 
simultaneously like a valid GPT and MBR:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html