GPT

[Nikos Roussos]

On Apr 23, 2012 1:12 AM, "Chris Murphy" <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 22, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote:
> > I already have a GPT partition (from my previous installation), but
> > Anaconda complains that my boot partition should be of type msdos. The
> > only way to proceed seems to be discarding all partitions and creating
> > an msdos partition table.
>
> Well that's kinda unfortunate behavior. I think the blacklist should
cause just "Use All Space" to force a new or existing GPT to be MBR. But
really, I've advocated the exact opposite you are, which is I think BIOS
hardware with disks < 2TB should default to MBR, not GPT. There's minimal
advantage, and more trouble.
>
> However, if you're really committed to GPT, convert the MBR to GPT using
gdisk after the fact. I suggest custom partitioning to reserve 1MB
unallocated. Post install, gdisk to add a BIOS Boot partition, gdisk type
code 0xEF02. Then when you reinstall GRUB2, it will automatically stuff
core.img in it.

Well.. considering that I have no special reason to want GPT, I guess it's
easier to go with the Msdos partition table. It's just that it surprises me
that there is no obvious way to override the default Anaconda behaviour
within the installation DVD, since my laptop supports GPT.

My previous installation, where GPT worked just fine, was done with F16
Beta, so maybe at the time Lenovos were not blacklisted yet.
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