Re: GPT (and ultimate UEFI)

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On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 12:44 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 08:47 AM, David Lehman wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 12:04 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> >> One of these days, we are going to get GPT partitioned disks good, bad,
> >> or indifferent.  In "regular" install mode with automatic configuration,
> >> the "bootbios" partition is automatically allocated. In "regular"
> >> install mode with custom configuration, you cannot proceed until a 1MB
> >> "bootbios" partition have been comfigured. [I am not sure if this has to
> >> be the first thing configured or not.]
> >>
> >> So, what should be done with kickstart where gpt is specified as the
> >> kernel parameter and something like:
> >>         clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=vda
> >> is specified?  Alternates:
> >>
> >> 1.  Add option(s) to part for creation of the "bootbios" partitions
> >> or (and better)
> > If you use autopart, biosboot will be created as necessary. If not, you
> > must add a line like the following:
> >
> >   part biosboot --size=1
> >
> Yep, got it.  Works nicely too.  I do not know if you can mix and match 
> but I assume not so I just stuck one on the front of the two SSDs and 
> the two USB drives that I am using for data storage.

You only need the partition on the drive that actually contains the
bootloader, AIUI.
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