On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 06:45:51PM -0500, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
I am guessing because my drives were blank and smaller than 2 TB that it defaulted to MBR even when the system had a UEFI BIOS (as long as the firmware is in legacy mode).
Right, the problem seems to arise if you already have partitions on your MBR disk. Perhaps Fred Smith can confirm this.
Well, it's been a couple of years, but as best I recall, I had two brand-new 1TB drives, intending to use them as RAID-1, and the BIOS was (should have been, it said it was) in legacy mode. I thought it was pretty weird that Anaconda wouldn't let me proceed beyond partitioning/ fs creation without setting up the EFI partition.
Somewhat more recently, I got a new system at work, containing Win10 (not a factory installation, but freshly installed by my employer 'cause they don't trust factory installation) and it already had UEFI in legacy mode by the time I got it. so when I installed C-7 on it, I had none of that garbage about requiring the EFI partition, it just sailed smoothly past it.
Go Figure!