On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 19:36 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/14/2012 07:17 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > anaconda will use the existing partition label format unless you direct > > it to reformat the entire drive, in which case it'll use the preferred > > format for the install you're doing. It's not possible to re-label a > > drive without reformatting it. So if the drive was already MS-DOS > > labelled and you picked partitioning options that didn't involve > > reformatting the whole thing, that'd be expected. > > The SSD was fresh from the factory. No bits were written to it prior to > my first attempt at F17 install. The first F17 install attempt told me > it needed to initialize the drive. I said OK and continued with install. > When it was going to format (the entire drive, as no data was on it > prior) anaconda said it was going to use MSDOS labeling. I exited the > installer before this occured, loaded a Live image, and formatted the > drive to GPT (palimpset showed no prior data or formatting). That sounds odd. Are you double-extra-plus sure it was booting UEFI? It should never attempt to format to MS-DOS for a UEFI install. I suppose it might just be that the *message* was incorrect. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
