Fred said on Wed, 4 Jan 2023 09:33:35 -0700

>I am willing to try this but after reading the fdisk man page I am not
>sure how to do it. Won't fdisk corrupt the files in sdb1 if changes
>are made? Could you provide a command line to try?
>
>I should like to try the usb on another computer to see if the
>installer comes up provided the installer can be exited before making
>any changes.
> Should I just power off or is there a way to gracefully exit the
>installer?

Before doing any of the preceding, I recommend you change your bios
from EFI to legacy, and see if that fixes your problem.

SteveT

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