Dan, I can't find how to go from MBR to GPT on this particular version of parted. I do know that everything seems to have been changed to GPT after my attempts at installing with Anaconda. This includes a Mint installation on sdc3. I did have parted take a screenshot of the messed up partition table that is supposed to be in /home/user but can't seem to find it. Oddly enough the Mint install seems fine along with the data. Backing up the data to another drive and erasing might be worth a try. Thanks for the replies. Hugh
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Andrew Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > > > >
