[Cialug] Won't Boot from Hard Drive

[David Champion]

Did you check the UEFI boot options in setup?

-dc

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 8:56 AM Nicholas Olson <nicholas.olson83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I had a very similar situation last year. I’d install Windows or Ubuntu
> successfully, but then it would say no OS detected. Things I tried were
> putting the SSD in another machine,verified that it tries to boot the OS,
> and trying different drives with the same laptop. I did find that if I kept
> trying, sometimes it would boot through to the OS.  I can’t remember all
> the things I tried after that, but I do recall that afterward testing and a
> lot of googling my feeling was that it was a hardware issue (likely sata
> controller) and gave up on that machine. That machine is still in a box in
> my basement so if more info is shared on this thread I may just pull it out
> and try again.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 5, 2019, at 8:21 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a computer on which I've installed an operating system 3 times
> > now. 3 different distros on 2 different thumb drives, in case that
> > matters. But in all three cases the OS would install, it would say
> > complete, and after rebooting the computer it says "no operating
> > system found". For some reason, the BIOS is not handing off to the
> > hard drive. There's something in my mind that tickles like it
> > recognizes this situation, but I'm not sure what it is. Something
> > with..... GRUB not installing correctly? I don't know. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > --
> > Todd
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