CentOS 7 installation oddity

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 02:27:21AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote
> I'm installing CentOS 7 on a little computer (A Foxconn nT-A3500).
> 
> My hard drive is partitioned in the MBR system.
> 
> My installation boot device is a USB stick with the CentOS DVD ISO
> dd'ed onto it.
> 
> When I booted the stick, I told the BIOS to boot from the UEFI device,
> the USB stick.

  I have never heard of a UEFI USB stick or DVD.  They should be MBR.
I think that's your problem right there.  You can boot MBR from the USB
stick and then set up the harddrive as UEFI or MBR.

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