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Subject: Re: [9front] Unwanted EFI partition during installation
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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
>