On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to > deal with a GPT disk. > > He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and some > remnants of that are left around confusing fdisk. He wants the > remnants to go away and needs to know what bit of the disk to dd > and make that happen.
You're right. That is what I meant I finally found the answer. http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/wipegpt.html is the URL to see. My Google-fu isn't quite what it used to be. For anybody else's benefit, here's what I did... ===================Screen Capture follows===================== livecd ~ # gdisk /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.4 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Command (? for help): x Expert command (? for help): z About to wipe out GPT on /dev/sda. Proceed? (Y/N): y GPT data structures destroyed! You may now partition the disk using fdisk or other utilities. Blank out MBR? (Y/N): n MBR is unchanged. You may need to delete an EFI GPT (0xEE) partition with fdisk or another tool. livecd ~ # =========================================================== fdisk now starts without the GPT warning. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
