32 bit Fedora 16 requires boot partition

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Nov 10 04:38:42 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:26 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> Will this cause a problem with other systems on the same HD
> such as FreeDOS or MSDOS 6.22 etc.??

Probably. DOS itself is likely a write-off by now, but there's no
intrinsic reason FreeDOS can't support GPT disks; there was some
discussion of it on their lists last year:

http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-devel%
40lists.sourceforge.net/msg07282.html

if you really want to use MS-DOS labelling still, you can pass the
'nogpt' parameter to anaconda.
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