On 09/19/2011 12:39 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 16:21 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> On 09/18/2011 05:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> When you got to the 'where do you want to install the bootloader >>> screen', what did it say, exactly? (Especially in the CD test case). >> With the usb install it placed the usb key into both places. >> >> With the cd the hard drive ( sda ). >> >> Both result in a non bootable system from harddrive. > Well, those seem like significantly different issues. Did you try at all > to figure out why the second case wasn't booting? When you say 'non > bootable', what happened when you tried to boot? In all counts the bios could not boot of the harddrive as in did not find the necessary boot partition, > What partition layout > option did you choose? Default non lvm layout ( unhash lvm ) > Did you check and see if it created a BIOS boot > partition? It did not ( well in the case of the usb key it did but did so on the usb key itself containing the iso image not the harddrive ) >> This was an HP 620 I was using ( user wanted his laptop back and walked >> away with F15 on it which btw installed flawlessly ). >> >> Just out of curiosity does all hardware support booting of GPT and if so >> does it require some bios config tweaks to get working? > AIUI, any system can support it, and no BIOS config tweaks should be > required. The key element is correct bootloader setup, and the necessary > BIOS boot partition. > >> As in can we hit scenarios when the installer detects GPT capable >> hardware installs accordingly then the user cant boot because it's not >> enabled in the bios config >> or is installing GPT when it othewize should not? > There's no 'GPT capable hardware' detection going on. Any time anaconda > is formatting an entire disk in F16, it does so with a GPT disk label, > AIUI. I suggest you read http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html. Anyway does anaconda support installing grub2 on mbr as opposed to gpt? ( use mbr or use gpt ) JBG -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
