GPT and Fedora 17

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/02/2012 07:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>> Yep as expected F17 alpha is broken in the same way on my laptop.
> 
> Your laptop is what hardware? Any install media kernel parameters used? What installation type? Can you provide both an fdisk and parted (or gdisk) listing of the post-installation disk?

For earlier in the thread:

"Hmm, I tried that workaround I think on my Lenovo T520 with BIOS 1.29,
and it didn't help.  I.E. point (1.) from the link referenced here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735733#c31"
You can see the boot flag is set to no avail in the disk
and parted output below:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1   976773167   488386583+  ee  GPT


Model: ATA ST9500420AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  2097kB  1049kB                     bios_grub
 2      2097kB  526MB   524MB   ext4         ext4  boot
 3      526MB   500GB   500GB                      lvm

I've confirmed that installing with the "nogpt" flag is OK.

cheers,
Pádraig.