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Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> Hi James, |
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> I don't want to cause any problems :-/ I'm just trying to boot this piece |
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> of crap of mine so I can proceed with installation. |
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> But I'm out of luck. It could be due to my old BIOS not recognizing |
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> correctly GPT. |
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> I think my only options would be to scrap that GPT and go with MBR, |
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> as Alex suggested. |
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Yep, good choice. Many old bios are, well a challenge. Sometimes |
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vendors have differnt bios and bios versions on the same/similar family |
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of motherboards. Maybe you can find a bios upgrade for your |
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old mobo? Sometimes that helps, but you may have to go through |
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windows and a floppy, or some other archane mechanism to upgrade |
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the bios. Googling for options on your specific mobo, may be worth |
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the time? |
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Here is one example for an "Asus" modbo: |
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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/321172-30-bios-update-motherboard |
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Your call on that. It may not help your problem with GPT so you have |
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to research that or go with a MBR setup. |
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> I try to reboot and still no luck; so I'm getting into conclusion |
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> that scraping the I have to scrap that GPT. |
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> I was trying to avoid as it take some time to do it from scratch ;-( |
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Gentoo is wonderful as a distro; but often one pursues things that |
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enlighten the brain, but conclude in futility. All the power of the |
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Gentoo distro and the devs and user community cannot prevent that, |
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IMHO..... |
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good hunting! |
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James |
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