On Apr 22, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote:
I already have a GPT partition (from my previous installation), but
Anaconda complains that my boot partition should be of type msdos. The
only way to proceed seems to be discarding all partitions and creating
an msdos partition table.
Well that's kinda unfortunate behavior. I think the blacklist should cause just
"Use All Space" to force a new or existing GPT to be MBR. But really, I've
advocated the exact opposite you are, which is I think BIOS hardware with disks < 2TB
should default to MBR, not GPT. There's minimal advantage, and more trouble.
However, if you're really committed to GPT, convert the MBR to GPT using gdisk after
the fact. I suggest custom partitioning to reserve 1MB unallocated. Post install, gdisk to
add a BIOS Boot partition, gdisk type code 0xEF02. Then when you reinstall GRUB2, it will
automatically stuff core.img in it.
Chris Murphy