[Discuss] Need help to get a Dell Inspiron to boot

[K Wong]

I had a Dell Inspiron 15" laptop with that error. The problem was not the
OS. The problem was the disk controller on the main board. A working SATA
drive was attached and it wasn't recognized. It went to the e-waste
recycler.

K

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 10:10 AM Yuuri <yd-vlx at boreal.shiroha.com> wrote:

> Hi Ron and Alan,
>
> thank you for getting back to me.
>
> On 2018-07-09 01:36, Ron  De Beck wrote:
> > Computer Bios pointing at wrong device for boot.
>
> See my relatyed comment further down...
>
> > Boot Flag not set on the Linux Partition.
>
> Hm... this I need to follow up on, since I don't recall doing anything
> about setting a boot flag. I also don't see it being mentioned in the
> BIOS menu - is that something Grub needs to be told about?
>
> > I don't recall Grub errors reporting this way.
>
> I think it is the BIOS talking to me - this is the wording of the
> message:
> "No bootable devices --
> strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility. Press F5 to run onboard
> diagnostics."
>
> F2 and F5 lead to the same "Aptio Setup Utility", which looks like your
> typical BIOS set up.
>
> On 2018-07-09 02:05, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> > Does your laptop have an old-fashioned BIOS or UEFI?
>
> It gives me a choice: "UEFI" and "Legacy" - currently set to "Legacy"
> and reporting "BIOS Version 4.0.7". There is no mention of "device"
> anywhere, however, when "Legacy" is chosen, there is a boot priority
> submenu, which shows the following selection: "1 USB, 2 CD, 3 Hard Disk,
> 4 Diskette, 5 Net". This boot priority submenu does not show up when
> "UEFI" is chosen.
>
> There is also a menu item "secure boot", which I recall reading about at
> the time and set to "disabled", as someone had advised. I will check
> that out once more, as well.
>
> > If the latter, there are some tricks to installing Linux
> > [...] I attach some notes
>
> Thanks for the notes! Let me first try to fix the problem by following
> up on the boot flag and "secure boot" questions and then I'd like to try
> the UEFI route...
>
> Thanks again - I'll be back soon!
>
> Yuuri
>
>
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