Anaconda is forcing GPT on non-EFI BIOS

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Aug 10 07:54:17 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 21:05 +0100, 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

If you didn't already, can you file a bug on this? Seems a blogger hit
the same thing, and has been confused into thinking GPT is default for
Fedora 16:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/08/08/feature-preview-of-fedora-16-installer/
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