Re: F37 proposal: Install Using GPT on x86_64 BIOS by Default (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 9:27 PM Peter Boy <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Am 02.06.2022 um 19:20 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 09:18:27AM +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
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> >> And even those who can continue to use Fedora Server via update are under the threat of having to switch distributions overnight in the event of a technical error. Fedora will become unusable for them. A great "feature", that you would like to introduce, obviously at all costs.
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> > Is 'inst.mbr' a viable workaround? (The bug mentions 'inst.gpt' to trigger the issue.)
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> According to the latest Anaconda documentation [1] there is no option inst.mbr, there is just inst.gpt. Maybe, it is an undocumented feature.
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It's going to replace inst.gpt. This is described in the Change document.

> And do we really want our users to fiddle around with editing boot line options as a standard procedure for using a standard use case?
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It's not standard at all. We don't even test for this setup regularly.
It's not a test case, and it's not even supposed to work right now.

Also, any system with drives >=2TB will get GPT automatically, you
can't have MBR in those setups. All this does is remove the default
special case for smaller disks.



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