Re: Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 February 2018 at 18:29, Yves Bellefeuille <yan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  OK I am going with documentation not being right and/or I have been
>>  very lucky with my installs.
>
> If you read
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installation_guide/sect-disk-partitioning-setup-x86#sect-bootloader-mbr-gpt-x86
> carefully, it seems to say that if you have UEFI and an MBR hard disk
> that already has partitions, you must reformat it to GPT.
>
> The documentation seems to say that Anaconda will use MBR only if the
> disk is the right size (fewer than 2^32 sectors) *and* has no
> partition.
>

 I am guessing because my drives were blank and smaller than 2 TB that
it defaulted to MBR even when the system had a UEFI BIOS (as long as
the firmware is in legacy mode).

What is the partition table of the drive you are trying to install to?


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