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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
Ok, I've been using a dual boot configuration for years (like I am now),
but recently wanted to do a fresh install of 16.04 alongside Win 7 in a dual boot set up like I've always had (except right now I'm on 14.04). I followed the instructions he https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux As suggested, partitioning the drive during Win set up so that I could install 16.04 afterwards. Set up seemed to go well, except now I am often getting the following message at start up: "No boot sector on internal hard drive No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." I am on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop. I don't get the message every time as sometimes I am presented with the GRUB menu to select either OS, but I am getting the message often. If I press F1, I then seem to get the GRUB menu to make the selection and boot goes as normal. Ideas as to the cause and remedy would be welcome. I currently have the free version of EasyBCD installed on Windows and have been manipulating it a bit, but not too much as I'm afraid of making the condition worse. Thanks in advance for any help. Jon |
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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
JBI wrote:
Ok, I've been using a dual boot configuration for years (like I am now), but recently wanted to do a fresh install of 16.04 alongside Win 7 in a dual boot set up like I've always had (except right now I'm on 14.04). I followed the instructions he https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux As suggested, partitioning the drive during Win set up so that I could install 16.04 afterwards. Set up seemed to go well, except now I am often getting the following message at start up: "No boot sector on internal hard drive No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." I am on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop. I don't get the message every time as sometimes I am presented with the GRUB menu to select either OS, but I am getting the message often. If I press F1, I then seem to get the GRUB menu to make the selection and boot goes as normal. Ideas as to the cause and remedy would be welcome. I currently have the free version of EasyBCD installed on Windows and have been manipulating it a bit, but not too much as I'm afraid of making the condition worse. Thanks in advance for any help. Jon Well, you know it's not a software setup issue, because... it works sometimes. Re-installing something isn't going to help. Paul |
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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
On 09/16/2018 01:40 PM, Paul wrote:
JBI wrote: Ok, I've been using a dual boot configuration for years (like I am now), but recently wanted to do a fresh install of 16.04 alongside Win 7 in a dual boot set up like I've always had (except right now I'm on 14.04). I followed the instructions he https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux As suggested, partitioning the drive during Win set up so that I could install 16.04 afterwards.Â* Set up seemed to go well, except now I am often getting the following message at start up: "No boot sector on internal hard drive No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Â*Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." I am on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop.Â* I don't get the message every time as sometimes I am presented with the GRUB menu to select either OS, but I am getting the message often.Â* If I press F1, I then seem to get the GRUB menu to make the selection and boot goes as normal. Ideas as to the cause and remedy would be welcome.Â* I currently have the free version of EasyBCD installed on Windows and have been manipulating it a bit, but not too much as I'm afraid of making the condition worse. Thanks in advance for any help. Jon Well, you know it's not a software setup issue, because... it works sometimes. Re-installing something isn't going to help. Â*Â* Paul Good point, and that being said, I don't like how the drives are plugging in/ unplugging. Takes several tries each time to get it plugged in correctly and recognized, even with my current drive. Not good because I don't know how to remedy. I do have an adapter for the DVD drive that allows another drive to be used in its place. I'm tempted to install this drive into that and boot to see what happens. |
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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
JBI wrote:
On 09/16/2018 01:40 PM, Paul wrote: JBI wrote: Ok, I've been using a dual boot configuration for years (like I am now), but recently wanted to do a fresh install of 16.04 alongside Win 7 in a dual boot set up like I've always had (except right now I'm on 14.04). I followed the instructions he https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux As suggested, partitioning the drive during Win set up so that I could install 16.04 afterwards. Set up seemed to go well, except now I am often getting the following message at start up: "No boot sector on internal hard drive No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." I am on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop. I don't get the message every time as sometimes I am presented with the GRUB menu to select either OS, but I am getting the message often. If I press F1, I then seem to get the GRUB menu to make the selection and boot goes as normal. Ideas as to the cause and remedy would be welcome. I currently have the free version of EasyBCD installed on Windows and have been manipulating it a bit, but not too much as I'm afraid of making the condition worse. Thanks in advance for any help. Jon Well, you know it's not a software setup issue, because... it works sometimes. Re-installing something isn't going to help. Paul Good point, and that being said, I don't like how the drives are plugging in/ unplugging. Takes several tries each time to get it plugged in correctly and recognized, even with my current drive. Not good because I don't know how to remedy. I do have an adapter for the DVD drive that allows another drive to be used in its place. I'm tempted to install this drive into that and boot to see what happens. You should be allowed to do that. Plug into the adapter, then enter the BIOS and verify the boot order is OK. Paul |
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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
On 09/16/2018 07:54 PM, Paul wrote:
JBI wrote: On 09/16/2018 01:40 PM, Paul wrote: JBI wrote: Ok, I've been using a dual boot configuration for years (like I am now), but recently wanted to do a fresh install of 16.04 alongside Win 7 in a dual boot set up like I've always had (except right now I'm on 14.04). I followed the instructions he https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux As suggested, partitioning the drive during Win set up so that I could install 16.04 afterwards.Â* Set up seemed to go well, except now I am often getting the following message at start up: "No boot sector on internal hard drive No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Â*Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." I am on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop.Â* I don't get the message every time as sometimes I am presented with the GRUB menu to select either OS, but I am getting the message often.Â* If I press F1, I then seem to get the GRUB menu to make the selection and boot goes as normal. Ideas as to the cause and remedy would be welcome.Â* I currently have the free version of EasyBCD installed on Windows and have been manipulating it a bit, but not too much as I'm afraid of making the condition worse. Thanks in advance for any help. Jon Well, you know it's not a software setup issue, because... it works sometimes. Re-installing something isn't going to help. Â*Â*Â* Paul Good point, and that being said, I don't like how the drives are plugging in/ unplugging.Â* Takes several tries each time to get it plugged in correctly and recognized, even with my current drive.Â* Not good because I don't know how to remedy.Â* I do have an adapter for the DVD drive that allows another drive to be used in its place.Â* I'm tempted to install this drive into that and boot to see what happens. You should be allowed to do that. Plug into the adapter, then enter the BIOS and verify the boot order is OK. Â*Â* Paul It wouldn't show in the BIOS, just as a device but wouldn't boot. What I ended up doing, since I bought two identical WD drives, was reinstall everything on the other unused new one. Since then, no more issues. My guess is that there's something wrong with the initial drive, so I'm going to wipe and then either return or exchange it. Thanks for your help. |
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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
On 9/16/2018 5:41 PM, JBI wrote:
On 09/16/2018 07:54 PM, Paul wrote: JBI wrote: On 09/16/2018 01:40 PM, Paul wrote: JBI wrote: Ok, I've been using a dual boot configuration for years (like I am now), but recently wanted to do a fresh install of 16.04 alongside Win 7 in a dual boot set up like I've always had (except right now I'm on 14.04). I followed the instructions he https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux As suggested, partitioning the drive during Win set up so that I could install 16.04 afterwards. Set up seemed to go well, except now I am often getting the following message at start up: "No boot sector on internal hard drive No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." I am on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop. I don't get the message every time as sometimes I am presented with the GRUB menu to select either OS, but I am getting the message often. If I press F1, I then seem to get the GRUB menu to make the selection and boot goes as normal. Ideas as to the cause and remedy would be welcome. I currently have the free version of EasyBCD installed on Windows and have been manipulating it a bit, but not too much as I'm afraid of making the condition worse. Thanks in advance for any help. Jon Well, you know it's not a software setup issue, because... it works sometimes. Re-installing something isn't going to help. Paul Good point, and that being said, I don't like how the drives are plugging in/ unplugging. Takes several tries each time to get it plugged in correctly and recognized, even with my current drive. Not good because I don't know how to remedy. I do have an adapter for the DVD drive that allows another drive to be used in its place. I'm tempted to install this drive into that and boot to see what happens. You should be allowed to do that. Plug into the adapter, then enter the BIOS and verify the boot order is OK. Paul It wouldn't show in the BIOS, just as a device but wouldn't boot. What I ended up doing, since I bought two identical WD drives, was reinstall everything on the other unused new one. Since then, no more issues. My guess is that there's something wrong with the initial drive, so I'm going to wipe and then either return or exchange it. Thanks for your help. Dual boot is a minefield because both operating systems think they want to control the boot process. If you install both OS's in the correct order, it should work...right up until the time that it quits working. That will likely be at the next update of either system. In the old days, you could use two drives and use the bios boot menu to select which. Newer operating systems can trash each other's boot system anyway. I gave up on dual boot. I put in two different drives with power switches so that only one can run at a time. That solved most of my boot issues. Suggest you clone your working drive to the non-working drive and swap them. I bet that it will work as well as the good system...up until the next major update. |
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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:18:28 -0400, JBI wrote:
Ok, I've been using a dual boot configuration for years (like I am now), but recently wanted to do a fresh install of 16.04 alongside Win 7 in a dual boot set up like I've always had (except right now I'm on 14.04). I followed the instructions he https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux As suggested, partitioning the drive during Win set up so that I could install 16.04 afterwards. Set up seemed to go well, except now I am often getting the following message at start up: "No boot sector on internal hard drive No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." I am on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop. I don't get the message every time as sometimes I am presented with the GRUB menu to select either OS, but I am getting the message often. If I press F1, I then seem to get the GRUB menu to make the selection and boot goes as normal. Ideas as to the cause and remedy would be welcome. I currently have the free version of EasyBCD installed on Windows and have been manipulating it a bit, but not too much as I'm afraid of making the condition worse. Thanks in advance for any help. Jon It's worth having SuperGrub on a usb stick. This will find all the bootable systems available and let you boot into one. However, if you are getting inconsistent boot problems, you probably have a hardware issue. |
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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
On 16/09/2018 17:18, JBI wrote: Thanks in advance for any help. You're in the wrong group. No, you are. You're no good and should not be in any group. |
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no bootable devices found after Win 7 Ubuntu dual boot set up
On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:06:44 +0200, Weatherman wrote:
No, you are. You're no good and should not be in any group. Long ago I killfiled the deranged person "GoodGuy". I only see his moronic posts when people respond to him. It's best for everyone that you killfile the bullying troll. Or, if you're not plonking him, at least don't respond to his idiocy. (I'll respond to the OP separately as I have a hint for him.) |
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