Re: Non-system disk or disk error after installation

From	Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Non-system disk or disk error after installation
Date	2011-04-25 07:58 +0000
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On 2011-04-25, Richard Evans <rp.evans.nospam@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> I did a reinstall of Debian today. It went off without problems but when
>> I came to reboot I got:
>> 
>> Non-system disk or disk error
>> Replace and strike any key when ready
>> 
>> I reinstalled again and also reinstalled grub twice. Any way round this?
>> Is it a hardware failure (cmos or disk)? Could I boot via a cdrom?
>> 
>> Anthony
>> 
> I don't know if this is the same thing, but that sounds a lot like the 
> problem I had when I upgraded to a 2Tb hard drive.
>
> If you drive is smaller than 2Tb, then it's probably not the same 
> problem, but if your drive is 2Tb or more then it may be the same thing, 
> in which case I'll see if I can dig out the instructions I found to fix it.
>
> Richard E.

Many thanks. It's actually 350GB, but I've solved the problem thanks to
a kind soul on the Debian users list. I needed to make the partition
bootaqble.

Anthony

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Non-system disk or disk error after installation Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> - 2011-04-24 21:22 +0000
  Re: Non-system disk or disk error after installation philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-04-24 19:07 -0500
  Re: Non-system disk or disk error after installation Richard Evans <rp.evans.nospam@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-04-25 02:26 +0100
    Re: Non-system disk or disk error after installation Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> - 2011-04-25 07:58 +0000
      Re: Non-system disk or disk error after installation Richard Evans <rp.evans.nospam@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-04-25 09:58 +0100

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