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[Bug 470457] The installation partitioner offers to delete GPT with default answer "yes"
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- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:18:12 -0700 (MST)
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470457
User d.pashov@xxxxxxxxx added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470457#c3
--- Comment #3 from Dimitar Pashov <d.pashov@xxxxxxxxx> 2009-02-26 13:18:11
MST ---
yes opensuse recognizes gpt even from earlier and parted worked fine for a long
time. I think the only thing to keep in mind here is grub.
Intel macs' bios emulator has limited mbr support. It can only handle primary
partitions. Mbr on the other hand can only have 4 primary partitions. The
situation by now looks like that one can have many many partitions with gpt.
They are all 'real'(primary) but the so called pmbr (p for protective) can only
hold the first four. Installing grub on the mbr on a mac might have bad
consequences so it is necessary to install it on the 3-rd or 4-th partition if
available. Once properly installed a recent grub will be able to see all other
partitions if need be.
Other issue is that parted might not be able to resize macs fs (hfs+ journaled)
so it might be useful to have some warning that directs people to apple's
resizing utility (it is part of the bootcamp program on mac ox s 10.5.x) the
people who try to directly install without being aware about that. It looks
like this more of an feature request now.
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User d.pashov@xxxxxxxxx added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470457#c3
--- Comment #3 from Dimitar Pashov <d.pashov@xxxxxxxxx> 2009-02-26 13:18:11
MST ---
yes opensuse recognizes gpt even from earlier and parted worked fine for a long
time. I think the only thing to keep in mind here is grub.
Intel macs' bios emulator has limited mbr support. It can only handle primary
partitions. Mbr on the other hand can only have 4 primary partitions. The
situation by now looks like that one can have many many partitions with gpt.
They are all 'real'(primary) but the so called pmbr (p for protective) can only
hold the first four. Installing grub on the mbr on a mac might have bad
consequences so it is necessary to install it on the 3-rd or 4-th partition if
available. Once properly installed a recent grub will be able to see all other
partitions if need be.
Other issue is that parted might not be able to resize macs fs (hfs+ journaled)
so it might be useful to have some warning that directs people to apple's
resizing utility (it is part of the bootcamp program on mac ox s 10.5.x) the
people who try to directly install without being aware about that. It looks
like this more of an feature request now.
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