On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 20:04 +0300, Nikos Roussos wrote:
On Apr 22, 2012 6:35 PM, "Chris Murphy"
<lists(a)colorremedies.com>
wrote:
>
> On Apr 22, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Nikos Roussos wrote:
>
>> I just tried to do a fresh installation with the F17 Beta
Installation DVD (x86_64). On the partitions stage I chose to use all
space, discarding all preexisting partitions, but it creates an msdos
partition table instead of gpt.
>>
>> Is something changed on the default anaconda configuration since
F16?
>>
>>
> What hardware do you have? It may be gpt blacklisted. I can't
reproduce your results, even starting out with a disk that's MBR using
"All Space" flips it to GPT.
It's a lenovo thinkpad (edge). I remember a bug about some thinkpad
models having problem with gpt, but it would seem to me as an extreme
action if all lenovo models were blacklisted.
They are, because lots of them are known to be broken.
Gpt was working just fine on F16 on the same hardware.
GPT was in fact blacklisted for Thinkpads in F16. We blacklisted it for
F16, disabled the blacklist for a while with F17, but enabled it again
before Beta. If you got a GPT install from F16 you must either have done
your install before we instituted the blacklist, installed with a 2TB+
drive present (in which case the blacklist is overridden), installed
native EFI (ditto), or the 16 blacklist must have somehow not hit your
model while the 17 one does.
I'm wondering if there is a grub option to force gpt for
anaconda.
I'm not sure, but try 'gpt' maybe? I know 'nogpt' exists but I
don't
know if there's a parameter to override the blacklist.
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