Bug 1292493
| Summary: | Anaconda fails to automatically partition (EFI partition not correctly recognized) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Vedran Miletić <vedran> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brian Lane <bcl> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 23 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, turchi, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2016-12-20 17:06:36 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Vedran Miletić
2015-12-17 15:16:03 UTC
This is similar to bug 1168118, but not related to Mac and reproduced in Fedora 23. According to http://superuser.com/questions/563074/do-hard-drives-need-a-guid-partition-table-gpt-to-boot-in-uefi-mode "(U)EFI-based systems, by specification, can only boot from GPT-style disks. The traditional BIOS can boot from MBR-style disks, and in some cases (depends on the manufacturer), they can also boot from GPT. However, as per the UEFI specification, the disk should have a GPT partition table." It would still be much better if Anaconda explained what is the issue, e.g. "Installing Fedora in UEFI mode requires a GPT partition table. MBR is not supported." Many PCs are sold with UEFI firmware and MBR-style partitioning, and they are working with Windows. I understand the standard compliance, but there is a technical reason not to do that in Linux? The problem arises especially when there is the need to install Linux but even is needed to keep the original Windows installed. This message is a reminder that Fedora 23 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 23. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '23'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 23 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 23 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-12-20. Fedora 23 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |