On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 19:36 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 11/14/2012 07:17 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> anaconda will use the existing partition label format unless you direct
> it to reformat the entire drive, in which case it'll use the preferred
> format for the install you're doing. It's not possible to re-label a
> drive without reformatting it. So if the drive was already MS-DOS
> labelled and you picked partitioning options that didn't involve
> reformatting the whole thing, that'd be expected.
The SSD was fresh from the factory. No bits were written to it prior to
my first attempt at F17 install. The first F17 install attempt told me
it needed to initialize the drive. I said OK and continued with install.
When it was going to format (the entire drive, as no data was on it
prior) anaconda said it was going to use MSDOS labeling. I exited the
installer before this occured, loaded a Live image, and formatted the
drive to GPT (palimpset showed no prior data or formatting).
That sounds odd. Are you double-extra-plus sure it was booting UEFI? It
should never attempt to format to MS-DOS for a UEFI install. I suppose
it might just be that the *message* was incorrect.
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