Using GPT labels in Kickstart

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 06/09/2010 09:05 AM, Andreas Muehlemann wrote:
> Hi All
>
> We're planing updating our Kickstart Process for the upcoming RHEL6. 
> As Disks and partitions still grow in a fast manner, we think to use 
> GPT partitions as the default disk label. According to the Kickstart 
> options, there is just the default MSDOS for i386/x86_64 and GPT for 
> Itanium. Isn't there any possibility to overwrite the default and use 
> GPT disk labels for x86_64 systems too?
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
Well, in RHEL5, anaconda will honor GPT tables on x86_64. If you can 
clobber MBR and create a GPT in %pre, you might be OK.

FYI, I was playing with hybrid GPT/MBR on an iMac with kickstart and 
anaconda honored the GPT

Jason