Re: Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 February 2018 at 18:45, Yves Bellefeuille <yan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> Right, the problem seems to arise if you already have partitions on
> your MBR disk. Perhaps Fred Smith can confirm this.
>
>> What is the partition table of the drive you are trying to install
>> to?
>
> MBR, 240 GB (an SSD), with CentOS 6 already installed on a partition.
> (There are also other partitions.)
>

OK wild guess on install options as sometimes they will do this but
not say they did it. Try adding inst.gpt=false to the boot line.

Thank you for your patience on this.

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