GPT in Fedora 16

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 22:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:53:53PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:04:30AM +0200, Lars Seipel wrote:
> > > On Friday, August 26, 2011 04:58:22 PM Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> > > > On systems where 32-bit is XP is running, one by definition is running
> > > > with  a  disk  of 2 TB or less. Fedora installation must by default do
> > > > the right thing. We need to agree on what that happens to be.
> > > 
> > > On systems with legacy operating systems installed Fedora does not touch the 
> > > partition table at all. On all other systems GPT is the way to go I'd say...
> > > 
> > 
> > In F16 is it still possible to force creation of MSDOS partition table 
> > without GPT using a kickstart script ? 
> > 
> 
> Or with some boot/cmdline option? 
> 
> Afaik for example rhel5 Xen pygrub has issues with GPT,
> and it'd be good to be able to install F16 domUs on rhel5 Xen 
> by forcing creation of msdos partition table..

As of Final TC1 (anaconda 16.21) this should be possible by passing
'nogpt' as a kernel parameter to the installer.
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