Le 02/12/2017 à 05:07, Dan Norton a écrit :
On 12/01/2017 08:54 PM, David Christensen wrote:
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> # fdisk -t dos /dev/sda
Your original post indicated a GPT partition table. Forcing an MS-DOS
MBR partition type means the tool will be looking at fake information
that your GPT formatting tool laid down on disk ("protective MBR", or
some such; I avoid these complexities.)
This command does not force an MSDOS MBR partition type. It just forces
fdisk to use the MSDOS partition table in the protective MBR. It does
not touch the GPT header and table. This trick has worked for me on a
number of machines with non-compliant BIOSes.
A new empty GPT partition table was created by fdisk prior to install.
Selection "g" under "Create a new label".
A friend told me he observed that a GPT disk label created by fdisk has
a wrong value in its header (I do not remember which one) which may
cause some firmwares to consider the GPT disk label as invalid. However
a BIOS should not care about the partition table whatever format it has
(unfortunately some wrongly do, and we have to deal with it). Note that
the Debian installer uses libparted to create new disk labels.
