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 on a BIOS system and don't create a BIOS > boot partition, anaconda will pop up a (somewhat cryptic) warning.
FWIW, there are bugs on Macintoshes of the sort "can't have GPT, but also can't have MBR", and the Linux-on-Mac people came up with the hybrid GPT/MBR partitioning, i.e. partition data that looks simultaneously like a valid GPT and MBR: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
