| From: Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | | > I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte | > sectors and then only with MBR disks. | > | > I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These | > don't even pretend to do 512-byte sectors: 4k all the way (3T and 4T sizes | > aren't good for MBR either). | | Uhhh, I haven't seen bare drives in the wild with 4096 byte logical and | physical sectors. You were right about that (and I was wrong). Thanks! So I didn't need the mess and bother of a flash stick. | Old PC's might be OK with GPT so long as there's also a protective MBR. | By default anaconda/blivet (the Fedora installer), creates a protective | MBR, but also sets a non-standard flag its 0xEE entry that tricks most | computer BIOS into accepting GPT. But there are quite a few BIOS that | will just face plant. So you have to test it to know for sure. I actually installed Ubuntu 14.04 on the drive (for MythBuntu). It required a mysterious tiny partition at the start but didn't explain much about it. The result worked. Then the requirements changed and I threw the result away :-) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
