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Linux - Laptop and Netbook Having a problem installing or configuring Linux on your laptop? Need help running Linux on your netbook? This forum is for you. This forum is for any topics relating to Linux and either traditional laptops or netbooks (such as the Asus EEE PC, Everex CloudBook or MSI Wind).

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Old 12-28-2013, 02:22 PM   #1
mrlogick
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I can't boot any boot loader


I've installed several distribution on my laptop.
For example: I installed Slackware 14.1 in /dev/sdb (my SSD) with lilo (without errors) installed in /dev/sdb.
but when I boot my laptop i can't see lilo. My computer seem to do nothing to boot my partition.
I also tried with Gentoo and grub 2. I can't boot my Operative systems...
I tried to format everything in my hard disk (and in my SSD) and install only one Linux Distribution with Grub 2 in my first hard disk (/dev/sda) (without errors). But nothing . . . It seem that my pc can't boot the boot loader. (neither from hard disk nor from SSD).
I tried also with Windows 8.1 (in UEFI mode) and it runs correctly. I can boot only Windows.

I remember that last month I was able to choose the hard drive to start, in my BIOS. I was able to boot only the SSD with its boot loader or I was able to boot only my hard disk with its boot loader (without problems).
I had changed many things for understand how to install Linux in UEFI mode. I think that I changed something, maybe in the BIOS, and now I can't boot any boot loader (except for windows). I would like to reset everything as it was before, but I have also restore the settings in my BIOS, but it doesn't change.
 
Old 12-28-2013, 02:30 PM   #2
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I had a similar problem with my HP laptop and it took me quite some time to figure out that this machine behaves like no bootloader is present if there isn't a partition marked as bootable in the partition table, though Linux itself does not need that flag to be set.
It may be possible that this is the problem for you, too.
 
Old 12-29-2013, 10:58 AM   #3
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Kind of a lot going on. Not enough information really to decide.

Can you remove the windows drive and only have the ssd installed?

What I'd do if I can't remove the windows drive is to set the ssd to be the first drive in the hard drive order. That is different from the boot order where one can select cd or usb or hard drive. You want this ssd to be above the mechanical drive. This would then make all changes to ssd be from a sda point of view. It should not allow changes to the windows drive.

Be sure to make a /boot partition also.
 
Old 12-30-2013, 09:35 AM   #4
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Oh, I've solved.
I have destroy the gpt partition table with gdisk.
then... i have used also fdisk or cfdisk...
I've made only 3 primary and 1 extended partition.
So, with the MBR now my laptop it's ok.

(to install linux with UEFI.. the problem was that I hadn't installed a boot loader with UEFI support)
 
  


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