On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 20:04 +0300, Nikos Roussos wrote: > On Apr 22, 2012 6:35 PM, "Chris Murphy" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > On Apr 22, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Nikos Roussos wrote: > > > >> I just tried to do a fresh installation with the F17 Beta > Installation DVD (x86_64). On the partitions stage I chose to use all > space, discarding all preexisting partitions, but it creates an msdos > partition table instead of gpt. > >> > >> Is something changed on the default anaconda configuration since > F16? > >> > >> > > What hardware do you have? It may be gpt blacklisted. I can't > reproduce your results, even starting out with a disk that's MBR using > "All Space" flips it to GPT. > > 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. They are, because lots of them are known to be broken. > Gpt was working just fine on F16 on the same hardware. GPT was in fact blacklisted for Thinkpads in F16. We blacklisted it for F16, disabled the blacklist for a while with F17, but enabled it again before Beta. If you got a GPT install from F16 you must either have done your install before we instituted the blacklist, installed with a 2TB+ drive present (in which case the blacklist is overridden), installed native EFI (ditto), or the 16 blacklist must have somehow not hit your model while the 17 one does. > I'm wondering if there is a grub option to force gpt for anaconda. I'm not sure, but try 'gpt' maybe? I know 'nogpt' exists but I don't know if there's a parameter to override the blacklist. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
