Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-03-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 17:37 +, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 02/07/2012 12:54 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 23:19 +, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> On 02/06/2012 10:40 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > >>> In Fedora 16 we changed to using GPT as the default disklabel for new > >>> in

Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-03-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 2, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > Model: ATA ST9500420AS (scsi) > Disk /dev/sda: 500GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: gpt > Disk Flags: pmbr_boot > > Number Start End SizeFile system Name Flags > 1 1049kB 2097kB 1049kB

Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-03-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/02/2012 07:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> Yep as expected F17 alpha is broken in the same way on my laptop. > > Your laptop is what hardware? Any install media kernel parameters used? What > installation type? Can you provide both an

Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-03-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Yep as expected F17 alpha is broken in the same way on my laptop. Your laptop is what hardware? Any install media kernel parameters used? What installation type? Can you provide both an fdisk and parted (or gdisk) listing of the post-installa

Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-03-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 02/07/2012 12:54 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 23:19 +, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 02/06/2012 10:40 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: >>> In Fedora 16 we changed to using GPT as the default disklabel for new >>> installs. In a few cases, mostly limited to Lenovo hardware, we foun

Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-02-06 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:54:01PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 23:19 +, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > On 02/06/2012 10:40 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > > In Fedora 16 we changed to using GPT as the default disklabel for new > > > installs. In a few cases, mostly limited to L

Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-02-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 23:19 +, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 02/06/2012 10:40 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > In Fedora 16 we changed to using GPT as the default disklabel for new > > installs. In a few cases, mostly limited to Lenovo hardware, we found > > that some BIOS's would not boot from GPT. We

Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-02-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 02/06/2012 10:40 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > In Fedora 16 we changed to using GPT as the default disklabel for new > installs. In a few cases, mostly limited to Lenovo hardware, we found > that some BIOS's would not boot from GPT. We blacklisted Lenovo, falling > back to msdos labels in order to

Re: GPT and Fedora 17

2012-02-06 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 6, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > In anaconda-17.6 I have reverted the Lenovo blacklist and changed things > so that pmbr_boot is always set on GPT labeled installs. This should > ensure that thing boot correctly. Is this happening only for Lenovo hardware? Or all hardware? I

GPT and Fedora 17

2012-02-06 Thread Brian C. Lane
In Fedora 16 we changed to using GPT as the default disklabel for new installs. In a few cases, mostly limited to Lenovo hardware, we found that some BIOS's would not boot from GPT. We blacklisted Lenovo, falling back to msdos labels in order to solve this. Thanks to Matthew Garrett we found that