wiped disk - no longer bootable

[Volker Wysk]

Zitat von Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 20:21, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>>
>> So Gparted is a regular program, not something that is to be booted
>> ("Boot Gparted"). That was confusing.
>
> :-o
>
> Yes! How do you normally partition disks?

With the ubuntu installer.

>> So I just chose GPT. (Googled a little about the difference, and it
>> tells you that MBR is just outdated in regard to GPT).
>
> Not at all. Not even a little bit.
>
> GPT is newer, but it is only needed for disks >2 GB, and only UEFI
> machines can boot from GPT. (Officially -- there are workarounds, I
> believe.)

My mainboard is old. So it's a BIOS, not UEFI, right? But I had a  
single partition of almost 4 TB. So why did it work?

>
> Macs and Itanium servers use GPT. MBR is more standard on PCs and
> works with both BIOS and UEFI.
>
> I generally use MBR for this reason.

Okay

>
> I do not want to be rude but I have to ask.
>
> If you do not know basic stuff like this, why are you trying to use
> fancy enterprise-server stuff like LVM, cache disks, disk encryption
> and so on? This is advanced level, rocket-science stuff!

I just used the (k)ubuntu installer for LVM and encryption.

Bye
Volker