Bug 733291

Summary: No MBR any more
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dirk Nehring <dnehring>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 16CC: anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Reopened
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-08-25 17:43:03 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Dirk Nehring 2011-08-25 11:36:41 UTC 
Description of problem:
If you choose to install Linux on a fresh computer, you can only setup GPT tables, MBR is not an option any more. Please give the user the possibility to choose a MBR layout.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 16 alpha
Comment 1 Brian Lane 2011-08-25 15:55:35 UTC 
MSDOS labels are obsolete. Larger drives need to be able to address more space and GPT provides this. For BIOS systems we install a small BIOS boot partition for grub2 to use when bootstrapping the system so there should not be any issues.

If you have an actual problem booting a GPT labeled install on your system please open a bug with the logs and system details.
Comment 2 Dirk Nehring 2011-08-25 16:13:54 UTC 
You cannot use Windows 7/32 bit anymore (on the same disk):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946557/en-us

Nevertheless, most people are familiar with the old mpt tools, also some recovery disks. Why not give the user the option to choose the way he like?
Comment 3 David Lehman 2011-08-25 17:43:03 UTC 
Most users do not want to be bothered with such technical details, and those who do should be capable of creating their own disklabel in advance of the install. All you have to do to prevent anaconda from creating a new disklabel is have one there to begin with and choose any partitioning option other than "Use All Apace" or "clearpart --all".