On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Apr 22, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Nikos Roussos wrote: > > It's a lenovo thinkpad (edge). I remember a bug about some thinkpad models > having problem with gpt, but it would seem to me as an extreme action if all > lenovo models were blacklisted. Gpt was working just fine on F16 on the same > hardware. > > I'm going to guess that it's easier to blacklist a make, than individual > models. > > I'm wondering if there is a grub option to force gpt for anaconda. But there should be an easy way to override it. > One way to opt in is to use parted or gdisk to make a GPT without a > partition, then tell Anaconda to use the "Use Free Space" installation type. > Actually, only the "Use All Space" causes a change in partition scheme, so > you could also make a single partition GPT disk with parted or gdisk, and > also use the "Replace Existing Linux System" option. I already have a GPT partition (from my previous installation), but Anaconda complains that my boot partition should be of type msdos. The only way to proceed seems to be discarding all partitions and creating an msdos partition table. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
