Re: Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

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Sometimes in bios it is called legacy mode

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> On Feb 15, 2018, at 5:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 15 February 2018 at 17:19, Yves Bellefeuille <yan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have a UEFI system, but I want to install CentOS on a MBR (not GPT)
>> hard disk.
>> 
>> The installation program keeps telling me that I must create an "EFI
>> system partition on a GPT disk mounted at /boot/efi".
>> 
>> I can't find a way to work around this. Is there a solution?
>> 
> 
> If the installer is doing that then it usually means that the UEFI
> firmware is either
> a) not in BIOS compatibility mode
> b) does not respond in a way that Linux detects or
> c) the disk is larger than what BIOS compatibility mode will allow.
> 
> Otherwise anaconda should default to MBR unless it finds the hardware
> does not know how to deal with MBR.
> 
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installation_guide/chap-anaconda-boot-options
> 
> 
> 
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