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brett michaels | 5 Jun 2012 14:06
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Other Options?

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?
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Dan Bidleman | 7 Jun 2012 00:41
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Re: Other Options?

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
<3rdimpression@...> 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?

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Tim Holloway | 7 Jun 2012 19:49
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Re: Other Options?

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
<3rdimpression@...> 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?
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Andrew Leslie | 7 Jun 2012 20:12
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Re: Other Options?

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" <timh@...> 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 <3rdimpression@...>
> 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
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brett michaels | 8 Jun 2012 05:25
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Re: Other Options?

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 <aleslie3@...> 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" <timh@...> 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:
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Tim Holloway | 8 Jun 2012 15:07
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Re: Other Options?

I just jumped from Fedora 14 to 17 and I think I've had a "stealth" GPT
conversion myself. I had to expand the /boot partition because it gets
used in ways that IMHO are stretching the concept, and when I did, the
lower limit on partition 1 went from 30 to 2048 - it wouldn't let me use
30 anymore.

Speaking of Fedora 17, the Gnome 3 desktop is every bit as horrible as
Linus Torvalds said it was. My standard desktop was loaded with
shortcuts, and the top and bottom bars were packed with applets -
everything from simple timers to gnotes to gnotime (which isn't
maintained anymore, darn it!).

All gone now. And every time I mouse up towards an app's menu bar, the
whole application gets thrown into cutesy animated "tag-you're-it" mode.
Stuff I do all day long now requires complex mousing to get at and the
only thing that got better rather than worse was the Preferences.

I'm looking at alternative window managers.

   Tim

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:25 -0400, brett michaels wrote:
> 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.
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