On 01/04/2013 07:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Or triid the other partition types, or tried zeroing the old partiiton with "dd" or running the "shred" program on it?
Thank you to all people who answered. It turns out that the first machine I picked over thirteen have a problem either on the disk itself or on the disk controller. I have successfully installed the others. I put the faulty computer apart for the moment. I will probably come back to this later and try to understand. A live CD with gparted shows a LVM partition with a locker symbol next to it. I tried to erase the first 512 sectors with dd but it was not sufficient. Also I constantly get the message "F1 to continue, F2 to BIOS" at every boot. I find it suspicious. JM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jean-michel BARBET | Tel: +33 (0)2 51 85 84 86 Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes France | Fax: +33 (0)2 51 85 84 79 CNRS-IN2P3/Ecole des Mines/Universite | E-Mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
