On 12/14/2013 03:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Dec 14, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It does not. So it sounds like Chuck's trying to do a UEFI install to an
msdos-labelled disk, and that's the problem.
I think this could use an RFE on the error message to be more clear what the problem is.
Chuck, you can't do a UEFI
install to a disk with an msdos disk label (partition table). If you can
blow the entire disk away, then choose a partition layout that does so,
and anaconda should automatically reformat it to gpt for you. If there
is stuff on the disk you can't stand to lose, then you only have the
choice of doing a BIOS install of Fedora.
Or convert from MBR to GPT using gdisk.
Chris, I'm trying to remember - we were discussing something like this
around the time of F19 release, and thinking of changing it. But I can't
recall if it was 'EFI system partition must be FAT32' or 'UEFI system
must be installed to a gpt-labelled disk' which was the assumption we
were questioning. Either way, I'm sure there was an assumption anaconda
was making in this area which we'd found not to be entirely true.
I don't remember. But yes for system partitions it's FAT32, and for removable devices it's FAT12 or FAT16. The UEFI spec allows either GPT or MBR disks, and there's an EFI System Partition type code for both partition schemes. For MBR this is 0xEF and this code is missing from libparted/labels/dos.c, and blivet uses pyparted which hooks into libparted, I really don't think anaconda is going to use MBR disks on UEFI computers.
Chris Murphy
I initialized a scratch disk with parted and was able to boot
netinst under UEFI and install Heisenbug.
Concerning Fedora's inability to boot from UEFI and install to
a fdisk configured disk: A relevant error message would have
been most useful.
And mow for the acid test - I plan on initializing a 4 TB disk with
parted and then install Win7 and Heisenbug on it.
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