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[Edge E Series] E320 Can't Boot GPT Hard Drive

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[Edge E Series] E320 Can't Boot GPT Hard Drive

#1 Post by isaac_ho » Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:12 pm

Dear All Gurus,

I installed Fedora 17 into a GPT hard drive, E320 can't boot. Howerver, if I installed it into MBR drive, E320 boots it no problem. Is E320 really can't boot GPT drive?

The BIOS version is 1.17

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Re: [Edge E Series] E320 Can't Boot GPT Hard Drive

#2 Post by ThinkRob » Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:58 pm

Are you booting via UEFI or BIOS mode?
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Re: [Edge E Series] E320 Can't Boot GPT Hard Drive

#3 Post by isaac_ho » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:36 am

ThinkRob wrote:Are you booting via UEFI or BIOS mode?
Both UEFI and BIOS (Legacy) mode failed.

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Re: [Edge E Series] E320 Can't Boot GPT Hard Drive

#4 Post by ThinkRob » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:49 pm

isaac_ho wrote:Both UEFI and BIOS (Legacy) mode failed.
Odd. What was your GPT partitioning setup like? When you were booting via UEFI, did you make sure you had both the actual UEFI boot partition and a BIOS partition?
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