Another issue with install and GPT

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Sun Sep 18 05:27:35 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 22:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 04:50 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> 
> > Anaconda is installing the mbr on the usb and with cd it still tries to 
> > install the mbr on the relevant media nor really hard to understand all 
> > blocker results.
> 
> What's hard to understand is that I can't duplicate that result: I've
> done a net install from the disc image and not seen it try to write the
> bootloader to the CD drive. I can't think of anything that would cause
> anaconda to do that. AFAIK it's not possible for it to consider an
> optical drive a valid install target. If this was a general result,
> Alpha would never have gone out...

When you got to the 'where do you want to install the bootloader
screen', what did it say, exactly? (Especially in the CD test case).
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