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Re: [LUG] UEFI bios and Gforce 460 dueling

 

On 04/08/12 21:42, Kevin Lucas wrote:
> After deleting all partitions and before reinstalling windows this is
> the messgae from lobparted concerning the disk Syncing device. mkntfs
> completed successfully. Have a nice day. libparted messages ( INFO )
> /dev/sda contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table.
> However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it
> should. Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that
> doesn&apos;t understand GPT partition tables. Or perhaps you deleted
> the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Is this a
> GPT partition table? This occurred after install of Fedora

Ah, there's your problem right there. Just nuke the disk and recreate a
standard (i.e., MS-DOS style) disk layout before reinstalling win7 and
then linux. Fedora is expecting certain on-disk features that you have
somehow knackered and it's confusing parted (understandably). This is a
known issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805272

It's entirely possible to use a full GPT layout whilst dual or triple
booting different OS's - I'm doing it here with Debian/Win7/OS X 10.8 -
but as it's more complicated and prone to user misconfiguration, I'd
just stick with the simpler MS-DOS layout if I were you. Fix that first
and then you should be able to proceed and sort out your graphics
drivers as well.

Regards,

Mat



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