Hi, > 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.
The raspberry pi firmware can handle MBR partition tables only. So even when running https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 UEFI firmware you have to use MBR, otherwise the UEFI firmware can't be loaded from the sdcard: kraxel@pi-four ~# sudo fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk1 [ ... ] Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x91e2b054 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/mmcblk1p1 2048 2099199 2097152 1G c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/mmcblk1p2 * 2099200 4196351 2097152 1G ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/mmcblk1p3 4196352 6293503 2097152 1G 83 Linux Could very well be that this is an rpi-specific problem (but the installed base is big enough that we can't ignore this ...). take care, Gerd -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
