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Old 22nd June 2012
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I then installed as before; two partitions only 2GB of swap, but using a DOS MBR instead of GPT. The result - exactly the same result.
Are they Western Digital Hard drives? These come pre-formated with a gpt in the first 2 sectors and also back up the gpt on the last 2 sectors of the disk. I did not have any desire to boot multiple OS so I zero out the first 2 sectors and the last 2 sectors on the drive with the dd command.
At that point the classic mbr boot sector worked If you do not do the last 2 sectors the gpt table will be restored.

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