On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 22:06:43 + (UTC), James wrote:
> Yep, good choice. Many old bios are, well a challenge. Sometimes
> vendors have differnt bios and bios versions on the same/similar family
> of motherboards. Maybe you can find a bios upgrade for your
> old mobo? Sometimes that helps, but you
Joseph gmail.com> writes:
> Hi James,
>
> I don't want to cause any problems :-/ I'm just trying to boot this piece
> of crap of mine so I can proceed with installation.
> But I'm out of luck. It could be due to my old BIOS not recognizing
> correctly GPT.
>
> I think my only options woul
On 09/05/14 20:50, James wrote:
Joseph gmail.com> writes:
But where to find older fdisk and in stall it from chroot environment.
Long answer. You are setting me up for another round of flame_arrows.
YOU should follow the advise you are given on how to solve your problem.
You are "hard head
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 19:57:48 + (UTC), James wrote:
> > What does 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' say about GPT and MBR (it usually says
> > whether you have a valid GPT and/or MBR before printing information
> > about the partitions.)
>
> gfisk does not seem to be in the tree. That's the old name for th
Joseph gmail.com> writes:
> But where to find older fdisk and in stall it from chroot environment.
Long answer. You are setting me up for another round of flame_arrows.
YOU should follow the advise you are given on how to solve your problem.
You are "hard headed".. You'll do well with Gent
* James [140905 15:58]:
> Todd Goodman bonedaddy.net> writes:
>
> > What does 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' say about GPT and MBR (it usually says
> > whether you have a valid GPT and/or MBR before printing information
> > about the partitions.)
>
> gfisk does not seem to be in the tree. That's the old n
On 09/05/2014 04:11 PM, Joseph wrote:
>
> With a GPT partition and old BIOS 2008 system, I need to set the
> bootable flag on the protective MSDOS partition. Thats all the BIOS
> can see.
>
> I need to use an older fdisk and ignore the dire warning about a GPT
> partition table being detected.
>
>
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > How to set a boot flag on sda1.
> > I'm using fdisk from util-linux 2.24.1 and in order to set it I need
> > version 2.22 or earlier
> You don't need to, that's only needed by the Windows bootloader.
When search for GUID partition table, I find (2) us
On 09/05/14 19:57, James wrote:
Todd Goodman bonedaddy.net> writes:
What does 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' say about GPT and MBR (it usually says
whether you have a valid GPT and/or MBR before printing information
about the partitions.)
gfisk does not seem to be in the tree. That's the old name for t
Todd Goodman bonedaddy.net> writes:
> What does 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' say about GPT and MBR (it usually says
> whether you have a valid GPT and/or MBR before printing information
> about the partitions.)
gfisk does not seem to be in the tree. That's the old name for the
"gptfdisk" now in the porta
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