Lenovo ships broken BIOSes that cannot boot at all if the
only disk has a GPT disklabel.
---
pyanaconda/platform.py | 11 +++++++++++
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pyanaconda/platform.py b/pyanaconda/platform.py
index 844da2f..fa0df8f 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/platform.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/platform.py
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ class X86(Platform):
# XXX hpfs, if reported by blkid/udev, will end up with a type of None
_non_linux_format_types = ["vfat", "ntfs", "hpfs"]
+ def __init__(self, anaconda):
+ super(X86, self).__init__(anaconda)
+ self.blackListGPT()
+
def setDefaultPartitioning(self):
"""Return the default platform-specific partitioning information."""
from storage.partspec import PartSpec
@@ -170,6 +174,13 @@ class X86(Platform):
else:
return 0
+ def blackListGPT(self):
+ buf = iutil.execWithCapture("dmidecode",
+ ["-s", "chassis-manufacturer"],
+ stderr="/dev/tty5")
+ if "LENOVO" in buf.splitlines() and "gpt" in self._disklabel_types:
+ self._disklabel_types.remove("gpt")
+
class EFI(Platform):
_bootloaderClass = bootloader.EFIGRUB
--
1.7.3.4
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