Strange booting problem

[jd1008]

On 06/30/2015 05:33 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Gordon Messmer
> <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
> That will not work. Parted replaces the PMBR in such a case. So does gdisk.
>
> wipefs -a after parted or gdisk will cause both PMBR and GPT primary
> and backup headers to be invalidated. So to wipe or invalidate the
> PMBR has to be done with dd.
>
>
OK, so after I partition with parted, I clobber the first 512 byte sector
with zeros, then the drive will retain partitioning info?