Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

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On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:03 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:

> This reminds me: I *always* install with a GPT partition table, an ESP
> partition, a BIOS Boot partition, and a smallish (1 or 2 GB) ext4
> /boot near the beginning of the disk.  All Linuxes seem perfectly
> happy to install this way (assuming you can figure out how to
> partition the disk like that in the first place) and booting that way
> in BIOS or EFI mode.  Given that this wastes at most a few MB, should
> anaconda just partition like that by default?

Definitely not. We tried doing BIOS installs to GPT disks by default in
Fedora 16, and it was basically a complete disaster.
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