Dear Folks, My silly! It turns out that anaconda automatically creates GPT partitions as required, allowing many partitions to be made. So I could simply create the additional BIOS boot partition, and the installation is now proceeding. On 12/11/11 11:28 +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote: >Dear Folks, > >Am installing Fedora 16 on my son's iMac 27 inch. The installer wants >an additional 2 MB 'BIOS boot' partition. The only trouble is that I >can only make four primary partitions, and this increases the >required count to five, as far as I can tell. Current partitioning >scheme: > >sda1 200 MB EFI System Partition >sda2 20467 MB hfs+ [contains MacOS] >sda3 250 MB ext4 /boot >sda4 748746 MB LVM physical volume > >The LVM is partitioned into: > 5024 MB swap > 50016 MB / >693696 MB /home > >The installation will not proceed; the error message box says, > >Partitioning Errors >The partitioning scheme you requested caused the following critical >errors > >you have not created a bootloader stage 1 target device > >You must correct these errors before you continue your installation >of Fedora. > >========== > >I am using rEFIt. I was not able to create any logical partitions. > >Any suggestions here, so that MacOS can still be booted, as well as >Fedora be installed? > >I take it this is required for Grub2. I have had Fedora 15 and >earlier running fine on this machine with a similar partitioning >arrangement. Does anyone have any suggestions? > >Can I tell anaconda to go ahead and install anyway so I can come back >with a rescue disk and install grub 1? -- Nick Urbanik http://nicku.org nicku@xxxxxxxxx GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
