Hi, > Can you verify this by clearing the boot flag you now > have and seeing if your system will boot after that? Yes, I tried that: The system showed exactly the same error about not being able to find a bootable device if the boot flag is unset, and after setting it again, things now work like before.
> So far, I for one haven't seen a system which requires a > partition _table_ to boot, not to mention a bootable > partition in it. BIOS merely loads first 512 bytes of > a disk into memory and jumps into that area, without > trying to interpret what's inside. Unless you use some > recovery/diagnostic mode which is embedded into some > BIOSes/machines. Well, that was my understanding as well, but my laptop just proofed us wrong ;-) . Maybe this is related to the "mainboard firmware" actually being some EFI or UEFI thingy with a BIOS compatibility layer. In any case, the Ubuntu installer deals with this correctly, I never had any issues booting from HDD before trying Debian as main OS (CDs are a different matter though). Kind regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107301354.44151.ralfjun...@gmx.de
