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Archinstall MBR error

Open Mickalebc opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

If you try to install Arch Linux on a machine that is using MBR and not GPT, and you use archinstall while having a drive bigger than 2 TB then the auto partitioning in the archinstall doesn't limit making partitions to match the requirements of MBR. It tries to make partitions that are much bigger than 2 TB and total of 2TB limit need to be added to the auto partitioning. Say you have a 4TB HDD like I do then it tries to make a 3+TB partition on the drive which will cause the install to fail. This makes the installer not compatible with older machines.

Mickalebc avatar Sep 22 '23 02:09 Mickalebc

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. That is correct, I simply forgot how old hardware behave. We'll add in a limit if MBR is used. I can't say when, but we'll get to it.

Torxed avatar Sep 22 '23 05:09 Torxed