Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:25 AM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce <devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > Because GPT was already the default
> > for ARM64
>
> FYI this doesn't appear to be the case - I have a fresh install of
> Fedora 41 on a Raspberry Pi 4B, using arm-image-installer to write the
> server image to a microSD card, and it got MSDOS.  Maybe that's specific
> to different ARM64 images?
>
> Anyway, if the long-term idea is "get rid of MSDOS" (which I'm in favor
> of), need to double-check that nothing is using MSDOS.

We can technically do this, but it will cut off a bunch of ARM boards.
In particular, we discovered that Raspberry Pis had problems with
pure-GPT[1], so I forced pure MBR for now[2] while we figure out if
there's even a reasonable path to GPT for ARM images.

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328768
[2]: https://pagure.io/fedora-kiwi-descriptions/pull-request/111




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