On 8/23/2012 3:32 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
Another confusing element is it's possible to have both mbr and gpt on the same disk at the same I don't know if I could take that headache.
So anyways, if you had a gpt and then wanted to switch to using mbr, you can't just create the mbr, you have to also erase the gpt to prevent various things from getting confused. The gpt lives at I was suspecting that I might have a tangled mix so I did a wipe with dban and started over with a traditional partition table. when I tried to install SuSE, I still found it insisting on a gpt type setup. When I booted again to start setup over, I discovered that if I press escape at the ELILO prompt, the install falls back to something that seemed more familiar and it accepted the non gpt setup that I wanted to do. Is that a documented feature that I just haven't run across yet or a secret that only a few know? :-)
both ends of the disk, beginning and end. Wikipedia gpt to see the diagram. mbr is only at the beginning. I tried but I had a hard time understanding it. Anyway, I got the PC setup the way I wanted with XP, Win7 and SuSE. Thanks for the help.
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