Bug 679827

Summary: GPT requested on a regular (non EFI) PC
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gianluca Sforna <giallu>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brian Lane <bcl>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, riccardo.vianello, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Gianluca Sforna 2011-02-23 15:54:36 UTC 
I installed a new 640Gb disk in a Sony VAIO laptop; currently, there are two partitions on it, about 200Gb total.

Attempting to use free space to install fedora (with a netboot disk, if it makes any difference), I'm getting a dialog like this:

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Titlebar: Automatic Partitioning Errors
 
The following errors occurred with your partitioning:
 
sda must have a GPT disk label.
 
This can happen if ther eis not enough space on your drive(s) for the installation.
 
Press "OK" to choose a different partitioning option.
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then the installation stops
Comment 1 Gianluca Sforna 2011-02-23 15:55:20 UTC 
Created attachment 480507 [details]
syslog from /tmp
Comment 2 Gianluca Sforna 2011-02-23 15:55:54 UTC 
Created attachment 480510 [details]
/tmp/anaconda.log
Comment 3 Gianluca Sforna 2011-02-23 15:56:29 UTC 
Created attachment 480511 [details]
/tmp/ifcfg.log
Comment 4 Gianluca Sforna 2011-02-23 15:57:05 UTC 
Created attachment 480512 [details]
/tmp/program.log
Comment 5 Gianluca Sforna 2011-02-23 15:58:06 UTC 
Created attachment 480513 [details]
/tmp/storage.log
Comment 6 Gianluca Sforna 2011-02-23 15:58:31 UTC 
Created attachment 480514 [details]
/tmp/X.log
Comment 7 Brian Lane 2011-02-23 17:56:59 UTC 
It looks like your system is an EFI system, the only way I can see for this dialog to be hit is if the system is booted in EFI mode. The syslog output also indicates this:

16:23:16,870 INFO kernel:[    0.000000] EFI v2.00 by INSYDE Corp.

You need to either boot in BIOS mode or use a GPT labeled disk instead of msdos.