Anaconda is forcing GPT on non-EFI BIOS

David Cantrell dcantrell at redhat.com
Tue Aug 2 20:05:49 UTC 2011


On 08/02/2011 04:05 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 08:52 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
>> On 08/02/2011 02:52 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>>> On 08/02/2011 07:45 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>>>> On 08/02/2011 07:36 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
> <snip>
>>>
>>> I found some good info here:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694808
>>>
>>
>> Correct.  There's no forcing by us, your hardware forced us to use GPT
>> because of the size of its disk.
>>
>> If you have a UEFI-capable system, I suggest using it in UEFI mode.
>>
>
> Weird because it was a KVM guest with 32G disk
>

That definitely sounds suspicious.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Supervisor, Installer Engineering Team
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