tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32101618147171078.post1216209300004641833..comments2023-06-04T18:39:22.425-05:00Comments on It's a Blog: Fedora 17, Lenovo B570, Windows 7 and GPTUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32101618147171078.post-61916684114394377962012-10-18T17:06:22.443-05:002012-10-18T17:06:22.443-05:00I didn't have my laptop with me when I wrote t...I didn't have my laptop with me when I wrote that last reply. It seems EFI mode is always on on this model. You didn't say you had the same one but I assumed that when I deleted my previous reply. In any case, if it's an option on your computer, make sure the boot mode is efi or uefi and not bios. Fedora's installer is complaining because bios boot can't boot from gpt normally. Well it can but it needs a little help for GRUB and that's the 1 MB partition it wants to make, the "BIOS boot partition".<br />Make sure you have enough free space when you run the installer and you should be able to tell it to use remaining free space and if it still needs the BIOS boot partition it should add it itself with the correct size but then don't expect Windows to work with a gpt disk but bios boot. I'm going to update post above with my final partition layout from gdisk. <br />This link explains what I think is going on: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280842Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13218646626778548250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32101618147171078.post-16955155540752460932012-10-16T10:16:54.564-05:002012-10-16T10:16:54.564-05:00Hello,
I'm currently in a similar scenario. I...Hello,<br /><br />I'm currently in a similar scenario. I converted my partition table to gdisk the same way you did, but when trying to install Fedora 17, the installer says "you have not created a stage1 bootloader target device". After some googeling I read that I maybe need a "BIOS boot" partition, so I created a EF02 labelled partition on my drive, but that did not help. Do you have any hints for me?<br /><br />Thank you!Lorenz Leutgebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00893032633530019380noreply@blogger.com