You may need to use a MBR style partition instead of a GPT. Try changing it before you use the installer using parted.
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:06 AM, brett michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > I had been trying to install Centos 6.2, but never got any further than > those dark blue circles, but then tried Ctrl+ALT+F2. > Then typed in "root", followed by,"anaconda". > Things were going well until the actual attempt at installing was made. > There was the following warning: > "You are trying to install a GPT boot disk on an non-EFI system. This may > not work". > Well, it didn't. After exiting the installer, there was a black screen and > the cursor. > I tried various attempts at exiting, but eventually ended up hitting the > "Reset" button. > I googled and googled, but ASUS does not offer any BIOS upgrade for this > particular motherboard(P5N-D). > Is there some way to upgrade without loss of data or shorting out the > motherboard? > Is there some sort of workaround? > Or should I just try installing an older version of Centos? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
