This may prove informative: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html
The simplest solution would be to nuke the GPT and fdisk in a traditional MBR to replace it, but that isn't something that you'd want to do if there's existing data at risk. You could reconstruct the essential parts of the GPT in MBR form if you were very brave, though. On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 18:41 -0400, Dan Bidleman wrote: > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
