I should have also posted that there is a kernal flag nogpt to stop using it be default.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Gary Scarborough <gscarborough@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry to jump in so late, but what it looks like to be is that the problem is GPT.  Maybe your system or the node software doesn't handle GPT?  By default Fedora 16 uses GPT on installs. 

Gary Scarborough
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