Installing a boot loader with nvm drives

EverydayDiesel · 12-06-2015, 10:29 AM

Hello,

I am having no luck installing the boot loader on my new NVM drives. I see that the bios is set to read from the NVM but yet the boot loader doesnt seem to take over after post.

I have tried installing syslinux and grub.
Also the cfdisk does not have a "boot flag" option on the partitions.

Grub gives me error that it contains no bios boot drive.
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/...psak0dl82y.jpg

syslinux tells me that the boot flag is not set
http://s1056.photobucket.com/user/ev...pshrqf155s.jpg

With the usb installation drive removed it always tells me that there is no boot device available.
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/...ps63eqr2uo.jpg

Thanks in advance!

Keruskerfuerst · 12-12-2015, 11:51 AM

1. More detailed hardware info: mainboard and NVM drive
2. Which Linux distro are you using?
3. The second link does not work at all

You should use the partition layout:

EFI boot
/(root)
/home
/var
/tmp

and a swap partition.

Emerson · 12-12-2015, 12:58 PM

You need to create protective MBR in addition to GPT (gdisk can do it), and you need to flag your boot partition as bootable.