besides take it back to the store, I mean. I have it booted on a USB stick. The internal drive appears to be unpartitioned when I do a disklabel -- only c partition reported. fdisk does report it as EFI GPT.
I read something about support in the kernel. Is there any hope of say, constructing a disklabel by hand and copying the file system over by hand? (I have opened up an empty "simple" partition on the disk already.) Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.