Strange booting problem

[Gordon Messmer]

On 06/30/2015 04:01 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> So, how can I proceed with a brand new drive,
> dd /dev/zero into the first ... say 4K bytes, partition
> it with fdisk, do not mark any partition bootable, so
> that bios will skip over it ? 

Based on testing, it looks like any use of MBR will cause your BIOS to 
pass control to the boot sector on the drive.

So you could dd 512 bytes of /dev/zero to the drive, or use "wipefs -a 
/dev/sdX", then use parted to "mktable gpt" and set up partitions.  
Assuming that you need to access the drive from a non-Linux system.  If 
it's Linux-only, then you have additional options like making the whole 
drive an LVM PV, as Chris pointed out.