On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Bill Tillman wrote:
Well the install finished and then I attempted to reboot the system but nothing happened. And by that I mean the computer's flash screen would come up and give me the choice to enter the Bios Setup or Boot Menu and that's all.
The BIOS on some systems expects a particular partition layout. In the old days, Compaq had a BIOS partition on the disk. Today, there are there are still weird things that can be vendor-specific. Or new standards like UEFI.
So the problem could be specific to that particular computer model or brand. Attaching the drive to a USB to IDE adapter might avoid the problem, allowing a boot from another drive. Before rewriting the do-nothing drive, use 'gpart show' or fdisk to see the partition layout that is the problem.
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