On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Jean-Michel Barbet <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I meant to zero, or shred, the entire disk or entire partitions, not just the first few blocks.
