From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Unwanted EFI partition during installation
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 20:28:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XNR8vzheWOD22iFKsC9_br98X4VJY=hN63jDRwDrzn66Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc4527a2-b0d6-4001-ab7b-5246c4e19352@sirjofri.de>
write some megabyte of nulls both to the beginning and the end of the
disk to get rid of the backed up gpt records, too
On 7/5/21, sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de> wrote:
>
> 05.07.2021 11:08:22 Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas@post.com>:
>> How to create a traditional MBR non-EFI partition table and how to make
>> it bootable?
>
> Hello and welcome,
>
> I had this issue and fixed it by looking into the prepdisk/partdisk files
> in /bin/inst. There is a command for manually formatting the disk as mbr.
> After that you can run the whole installation process and the disk should
> be detected as mbr.
>
> It should also be possible to completely ream/null the disk (some vps
> providers have an option for that). Then you should get the prompt again.
>
> Good luck
>
> sirjofri
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-06 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-05 9:08 Rocky Hotas
2021-07-05 11:37 ` sirjofri
2021-07-05 18:28 ` hiro [this message]
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