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Archinstall MBR error #2087

Open Mickalebc opened 11 months ago

Mickalebc commented 11 months ago

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.

Torxed commented 11 months ago

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.