On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Jean-Michel Barbet
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> On 01/04/2013 07:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> Or triid the other partition types, or tried zeroing the old partiiton
>> with "dd" or running the "shred" program on it?
>
>
> Thank you to all people who answered.
>
> It turns out that the first machine I picked over thirteen have a
> problem either on the disk itself or on the disk controller. I have
> successfully installed the others. I put the faulty computer apart for
> the moment.
>
> I will probably come back to this later and try to understand.
>
> A live CD with gparted shows a LVM partition with a locker
> symbol next to it. I tried to erase the first 512 sectors with dd
> but it was not sufficient. Also I constantly get the message "F1 to
> continue, F2 to BIOS" at every boot. I find it suspicious.

I meant to zero, or shred, the entire disk or entire partitions, not
just the first few blocks.