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Originally Posted by yancek
What "third party boot media" are you referring to?
I don't use UEFI but, from what I understand, if you are using GPT with windows you also need to install using UEFI. If you have multiple systems installed, they need to all be UEFI or all MBR. How old is this computer? You could google 'bootinfoscript' and download it and burn it to a CD and boot it. Just select the option to Create BootInfo Summary and post a link to it here as it will have details on your system which should get you some help.
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i've been doing some distro hopping lately. so I constantly swap in/out different harddisks on my desktop pc.
here are the setup:
1. 640G SATA hd (win7/debian7 dual boot)
2. 10G IDE hd (OI -> Voidlinux)
3. 30G 2.5" IDE hd (win2k/FreeBSD10.1 dualboot -> FreeBSD10.1)
4. 80G 2.5" IDE hd (winxp -> winxp/OI dual boot)
originally only the SATA harddrive was installed on the pc, I pulled it out to swap in other harddisk.
10G IDE hd with OI couldn't boot on the pc, so I installed voidlinux on it.
30G/80G 2.5" IDE were pulled from my broken thinkpads and had OS installed before, 30G with win2k/FreeBSD both OS can still boot in desktop; 80G with Xp can't boot with 'error loading OS', so I updated desktop bios and reinstalled winxp and installed OI as well.
after bios update, I noticed 2.5 IDE disk with FreeBSD could't load, reports error:
'mounting from ufs://dev/ada0s2a failed with error 19'. so I wiped it clean and reinstalled FreeBSD on it.
on 10G hd, when I tried to remove OI and install voidlinux, voidlinux installer(i.e. 3rd party boot media) reports the disk has GPT scheme and can't overwrite it, so I had to use a winXP cd to remove the partition first then install voidlinux. the voidlinux USB installer was labeled as 'Grub_UEFI' when created by 'win32diskimage'.
none of the IDE hard drive was recognized by new bios when SATA is installed on the PC.
so i'm lost as to what to make of all these, since GPT and UEFI are relatively new development and I don't know much about them. the desktop pc I have is a 10 yrs old homebuilt pc with the aforementioned MSI MB.