I would say if you had a secondary hard drive to back up all the data to that, wipe all the partitions then create a MBR to overwrite the GPT table. I doubt it but gParted may be able to convert it over, never tried it before. Other then that, I don't really know of any other way. On Jun 7, 2012 1:50 PM, "Tim Holloway" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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] > >
