f16 installer message

[Jurgen Kramer]

On 17 aug. 2011, at 21:54, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, when installing f16 alpha (the RC just released today) on
> a KVM virtual machine from the 64 bit DVD iso image, I did
> a normal custom partitioning with a swap and a ext4 /
> partition on a branch new qcow2 20G disk image.
> 
> When it reached the partitioning stage, I got a popup
> with this message:
> 
>  You are using a GPT bootdisk on a non-EFI system without a
>  BIOS boot partition. This may not work, depending on your
>  BIOS's support for booting from GPT disks.
> 
> Absolutely no one here has a clue what any of this means :-).
> 
> P.S. I continued the install to see what would happen and
> the KVM console says "Booting from hard disk..." and sits
> there like a lump at that point.
> 
I've seen this before when booting the fedora DVD on my Mac using the legacy boot loader instead of the EFI one. Does your system support EFI?

Jurgen