Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:46 PM, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Ma, 18 sep 12, 19:24:45, lee wrote:
>>>
>>> > 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive?
>>>
>>> Is "msdos" a useful partition type for you? Try "Linux", and if it
>>> works, you can try to change it to msdos.
>>
>> Partition *table*, not *type* ;)
>
> Are you sure there is such a thing as an "msdos" partition table? There
> seem to be a couple types of partition tables, and "msdos" doesn't seem
> to be amongst them[1]. Then there are "partition types" and "partition
> type codes", see [2].
>
> The OP probably refers to the "partition type code", more commonly
> referred to as partition type. IIRC fdisk does that. If it does,
> perhaps we should file a bug against fdisk to have that changed to
> "partition type code"?
d-i refers to an msdos partition table.
fdisk refers to a dos partition table.
You can choose from a few different partition tables in d-i. The only
other that I remember, that I've used, and that I prefer is gpt.
In fdisk, you can only choose dos (you can also choose a bsd label but
I think that it's in addition to dos but might be wrong...). In gdisk,
you can choose gpt. AFAIK, there are more options in parted.
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