[CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk
Pribble, William
wpribble at Rockfordschools.org
Thu Feb 15 22:33:20 UTC 2018
Sometimes in bios it is called legacy mode
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> On Feb 15, 2018, at 5:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 15 February 2018 at 17:19, Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> wrote:
>> I have a UEFI system, but I want to install CentOS on a MBR (not GPT)
>> hard disk.
>>
>> The installation program keeps telling me that I must create an "EFI
>> system partition on a GPT disk mounted at /boot/efi".
>>
>> I can't find a way to work around this. Is there a solution?
>>
>
> If the installer is doing that then it usually means that the UEFI
> firmware is either
> a) not in BIOS compatibility mode
> b) does not respond in a way that Linux detects or
> c) the disk is larger than what BIOS compatibility mode will allow.
>
> Otherwise anaconda should default to MBR unless it finds the hardware
> does not know how to deal with MBR.
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installation_guide/chap-anaconda-boot-options
>
>
>
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>> <yan at storm.ca>
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