How To Remove BIOS RAID Metadata From Disk On Fedora

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How to remove BIOS RAID metadata from disk on Fedora

When I installed Fedora on a used disk, it gave me an error message:
Disk contains BIOS metadata, but is not part of any recognized BIOS RAID sets. Ignoring disk sdb
I plugged this disk in a USB-based hard drive docking station on another machine that installed Fedora,
and used dd to wipe the disk. It took me two days. I had 8 of the same disks that my co-workers used.
So I searched on the net, and found there is a dmraid command can remove the BIOS RAID metadata.
[root@localhost ~]# dmraid -r -E /dev/sdc
Do you really want to erase pdc ondisk metadata on /dev/sdc ? [y/n] :y
It took me just one second! It saved me a half of month. LOL!
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By: Removing BIOS RAID Metadata | Of Penguins & Coffee on June 25, 2011
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Thanks , that solved the same problem for me.
You are the best
By: David J. Ruedeman on July 7, 2011
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1\ Very helpful post.

2\ For some guys like me dmraid wont work.. In which case only option is to zero out the drive
with dd. But good news is you dont have to zero out complete drive. Just zero out 1st couple and
last couple of sectors. Follow commands below
Friday 12 December 2014 01:49 PM
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=2

fdisk -s /dev/sda
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda seek=(number_of_sectors 20) bs=1k
number_of_sectors = output of fdisk -s /dev/sda
This worked for me.. Thought I should put it out.
Gattu
By: Gattu on November 5, 2012

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BEEEEEE-UUUU-TTTIIIII-FUL!!!!!
Danka sehr-fiel!
By: Sean Parker on April 17, 2013
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thanks to Gattu
By: Dr Smith on October 31, 2013
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You made my day
By: Anonymous on August 8, 2011
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You rock !
Just removed my metadata so centos6 will install well I hope it will now :D
By: Anonymous on September 22, 2011
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Your error said sdb but youre dmraid on sdc.
I know, I just cant let that go :) Thanks for the tip.
By: Anonymous on October 6, 2011
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So so so grateful! I have had problems with this issue in Anaconda back as far as Fedora 10, and
usually worked around by using other disks. Doing a new install today I hit this and looked for
bugs. There are numerous (still open) bugs filed in bugzilla on this issue! Fedora 15 and the Fedora
16 beta both have this problem too! I had been banging my head against this for a couple of hours
today till I found your post. I used the Federoa 16 beta Live disk to boot; opened a terminal; ran su
to become root, and then ran the above command. Then rebooted and finally Anaconda let me
proceed. Thank-you!!
By: Anonymous on October 6, 2011
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Thanks I was used dd command without success
cheers
By: Anonymous on January 21, 2012
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Thank you very much. It solved the problem for me alsa.
at 7:49 pm
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Thank you so much!
I can confirm dmraid -r -E /dev/sd[a, b, c] worked for me.
Been trying to install Fedora 16 on an old desktop. During install, I got the same Disk contains BIOS
metadata, but is not part of any recognized BIOS RAID sets. Ignoring disk sda error message as
author, but my drive was under sda.
Went into Terminal
entered su to become root
entered dmraid -r -E /dev/sda
when asked Do you really want to erase pdc ondisk metadata on /dev/sdc?, entered y
done deal. not sure if the bug in question is Cannot install over an existing RAID configuration
Bugzilla: #729640
By: Anonymous on February 5, 2012
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Hello,
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Does
Friday we
12 December
2014 01:49 PM
this command dmraid -r -E /dev/sdx erase the data if for example
have two operating
systems installed on it? I have Ubuntu Onyx and Ubuntu Maverick, and when trying to install a
Fedora based distro I also receive the said message bios metadata ignoring disk.
I menction this because I would like to try a fedora based distro like fuduntu and also have the other
two operating systems..
Thanks a lot. Marco Antonio
By: Marco A. Rodriguez G. on March 4, 2012
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Thanks so much for sharing. It saved me about half a day.
By: Anonymous on April 12, 2012
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2 days later after removing MBR and wiping HDD I found this post worked a treat!
By: Anonymous on April 18, 2012
at 8:45 pm
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This tip save the world from hearing many curses last night. Thanks.
By: anonymous on May 3, 2012
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Thank you
;)
By: Anonymous on June 9, 2012
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Thanks for this works a treat. Do not understand why Fedora and other linux distos just dont ask
during install if you would like to remove old metadata.
By: Jason on June 25, 2012
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By: Centos 6.2Disk sda contains BIOS RAID metadata on July 6, 2012
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Brilliant! I had to run this twice as I had pdc and sil metadata now fedora 16 will finally install.
By: Kieron on July 20, 2012
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Ty Brochacho-you hit the nail on the head with this fix. Saved my bacon!
By: Anonymous on July 27, 2012
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Hi, It worked for me, but now, when the computer starts, it takes a little bit more time loading when
it shows the BIOS screen (I mean, when it shows DELL and the setup options).
There is any way to recover this metadata?
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That was a hell of a tip! Thanx a lot.
By: Matheus Geraldini on August 16, 2012
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By: BIOS meta Data CentOS | on August 31,
2012
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Great blog worked for me.. neede to remove data at the start and end of drive as stated by gatu
By: Anonymous on November 6, 2012
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Thanks to that! saved me a lot of time, too.

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By: Disk contains BIOS metadata | on November 15, 2012
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Great tip. Work for us well.
By: Zhiqiang Ma on November 22, 2012
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tyvm, save me some time.
By: Anonymous on December 8, 2012
at 10:13 pm
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I found when I did on CentOS6.2, it didnt work. I used the way as below:
# parted /dev/sdc
# mklabel msdos
at 12:26 pm
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That solves my problem too. Many many thanks!!! :-)
By: Anonymous on March 15, 2013
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That solves my problem too. Many many thanks!! :-)
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By: Allison on May 17, 2013
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mdadm zero-suberblock /dev/sdx faster way to do this, also there is no dmraid in minimal RHEL
installation but mdadm is.
By: Anonymous on May 17, 2013
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mdam zero-superblock /dev/sdx
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\-\- zero
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mdadm zero-superblok /dev/sdx worked for me
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The dd operation described above..
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=2
fdisk -s /dev/sda
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda seek=(number_of_sectors 20) bs=1k
number_of_sectors = output of fdisk -s /dev/sda
did NOT work for me, so I arbitrarily increased 20 to 800.
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December 2014 01:49 PM

I assume that this metadata is somewhere near the near of the drive, Friday
and the12goal
is to avoid having
to zero the whole thing. zeroing a few K bytes doesnt take any time.
By: dave pullin on April 26, 2014
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(and it worked!)
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awesome. Had same issue and it worked like a charm. Was getting ready to sit down and wade
through ton of pages and documentation to fix this and ran across your blog. One simple command
fixed the problem in no time. On to install CentOS so I can get my OpenVS system up and running.
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