Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk
Date	2017-12-01 20:00 +0100
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:50:12PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:
> Disklabel type: gpt

> Apparently, BIOS does not see a bootable device. In the dim past, fdisk
> could set a partition as "active", which was its euphemism for "bootable".
> However now:

GPT disk labels don't have active/bootable partitions.  That's only
a thing in msdos (a.k.a. mbr) disk labels.

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Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-12-01 20:00 +0100
  Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-12-01 20:30 +0100
  Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-01 20:40 +0100
    Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-01 22:30 +0100
      Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-01 23:00 +0100

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