[Cialug] Won't Boot from Hard Drive

[Nicholas Olson]

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. 

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> 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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