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Date:      Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:33:10 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Destroy GPT partition scheme absolutely, how?
Message-ID:  <11528552.m8AMM69Vtr@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <cc9841a5-9815-2271-3546-e23d83d8834e@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20160926150109.0d0d793e@hermann> <aae98e97-33a9-ea76-3658-f6601b1597f5@yandex.ru> <cc9841a5-9815-2271-3546-e23d83d8834e@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thursday, September 29, 2016 01:01:44 AM Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 28/09/2016 21:08, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> > This is very strange problem, how did you created MBR if you have not
> > destroyed GPT? :)
> 
> Using a tool that's not aware of GPT at all?

I think the drive's arrived with some partition scheme on them from
burn-in testing or the like and when trying to be reinstalled we could
end up "exposing" the GPT when the MBR was destroyed or something like
that.

-- 
John Baldwin



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