Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-10-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:47:58PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 22:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:53:53PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:04:30AM +0200, Lars Seipel wrote: > > > > On Friday, August 26, 2011 04:

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-10-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:47:58PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 22:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:53:53PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:04:30AM +0200, Lars Seipel wrote: > > > > On Friday, August 26, 2011 04:

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-10-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 22:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:53:53PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:04:30AM +0200, Lars Seipel wrote: > > > On Friday, August 26, 2011 04:58:22 PM Al Dunsmuir wrote: > > > > On systems where 32-bit is XP is runn

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-10-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:53:53PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:04:30AM +0200, Lars Seipel wrote: > > On Friday, August 26, 2011 04:58:22 PM Al Dunsmuir wrote: > > > On systems where 32-bit is XP is running, one by definition is running > > > with a disk of 2 TB or

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-10-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:04:30AM +0200, Lars Seipel wrote: > On Friday, August 26, 2011 04:58:22 PM Al Dunsmuir wrote: > > On systems where 32-bit is XP is running, one by definition is running > > with a disk of 2 TB or less. Fedora installation must by default do > > the right thing. We need

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-27 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Lars Seipel wrote: > btw, I just installed F16 on an EFI machine and got Grub Legacy. Are there any > major problems with Grub 2's EFI support? >From a brief conversation I had earlier this week, yes there are. The plan is grub2 for BIOS based machines, grub for

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-26 Thread Lars Seipel
On Friday, August 26, 2011 04:58:22 PM Al Dunsmuir wrote: > On systems where 32-bit is XP is running, one by definition is running > with a disk of 2 TB or less. Fedora installation must by default do > the right thing. We need to agree on what that happens to be. On systems with legacy operati

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-26 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Friday, August 26, 2011, 3:35:52 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:29:55PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: >> >> Windows and GPT FAQ: >> >> Q. Can Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 read, write, >> and boot from GPT disks? >> >> A. Yes, all versions can use GP

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:29:55PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > Windows and GPT FAQ: > > Q. Can Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 read, write, > and boot from GPT disks? > > A. Yes, all versions can use GPT partitioned disks for data. >Booting is only supported for 64-bi

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-26 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 08/25/2011 08:11 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > To boot to a GPT disk from BIOS (rather than EFI) you need a BIOS boot > partition. If you use one of the automatic partitioning methods, rather > than manual partitioning, F16's installer will create one for you. If > you choose manual partitioning

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-26 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 08:12:21PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 21:13 -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:17:58PM -0500, David Lehman wrote: > > > > > > It's also true that if you create an msdos/mbr partition table on your > > > disk prior to instal

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 21:13 -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:17:58PM -0500, David Lehman wrote: > > > > It's also true that if you create an msdos/mbr partition table on your > > disk prior to installation and then choose any option except for "Use > > All Space" (or "clear

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:17:58PM -0500, David Lehman wrote: > > It's also true that if you create an msdos/mbr partition table on your > disk prior to installation and then choose any option except for "Use > All Space" (or "clearpart --all" in kickstart) anaconda will not destroy > your existin

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-25 Thread David Lehman
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 17:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 16:17 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: > > While installing Fedora 16 Alpha, I ran into some problems that turned > > out to be caused by the installer formatting with a GPT rather than an > > MBR partition table. > > > >

Re: GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 16:17 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: > While installing Fedora 16 Alpha, I ran into some problems that turned > out to be caused by the installer formatting with a GPT rather than an > MBR partition table. > > I would like to understand the change and its implications, and I hav

GPT in Fedora 16

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew McNabb
While installing Fedora 16 Alpha, I ran into some problems that turned out to be caused by the installer formatting with a GPT rather than an MBR partition table. I would like to understand the change and its implications, and I have unsuccessfully tried to track down more information. I haven't