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From: sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>
To: Rocky Hotas <9front@9front.org>
Subject: Re: [9front] Unwanted EFI partition during installation
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 11:37:55 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc4527a2-b0d6-4001-ab7b-5246c4e19352@sirjofri.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-91409610-47c3-462a-9bc8-86dfb8b503f4-1625476102821@3c-app-mailcom-lxa08>


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

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-07 10:14 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 [this message]
2021-07-05 18:28   ` hiro

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