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| From | Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk |
| Date | 2017-12-04 00:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <uSM1A-5Eh-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <uSlNM-5vO-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <uStrX-1X9-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <uSM1A-5Eh-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <uSM1A-5Eh-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <uSM1A-5Eh-15@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 12/03/2017 02:04 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-04 08:00 (UTC-0500): > >> Felix Miata wrote: >>> Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-03 16:44 (UTC-0500): >>> Note the above is currently from the future. Apparently the PC you are emailing >>> from is advanced one day. >> Must be a result of my Setup menu activities. Debian says it is 07:48 AM >> (5 hours late) but I put in the local time from my cell phone in Setup >> this morning. Maybe I need to set the HW to UTC? > That's the preferred time for *nix installations. Check what's in /etc/adjtime > to confirm. HW clock needs to match it. Now you're showing 5 hours late. > >> I've been wondering what you do with all those >> systems, too. It would be much more productive if we worked together. >> I'm pretty much self-taught. > Mostly I try to replicate reported problems and assist in finding solutions, > identifying bugs, and doing bug QA. It's getting harder because my supply of > free PCs to use for the purpose dried up before UEFI started to show up. > >> Do you ever come to Atlanta? I'm North of it, in Roswell. > I've never stopped there except to fuel passing through between here and > Wisconsin or Nashville. Last such trip was probably around 25 years ago. > >>> Before you give up, it might be worth more investigation of GPT boot foibles >>> outside the Debian zone. Archlinux docs are consistently among the best >>> regardless of distro in use. You might yet have a solution using a simple >>> procedure applied to what you have already done, if only it can be identified. >>> http://www.lightofdawn.org/wiki/wiki.cgi/BIOSBootGPT > !!! After reading this again, did this: # gdisk /dev/sda [...] Command (? for help): x Expert command (? for help): p [...] Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 411647 200.0 MiB EF00 2 411648 16783359 7.8 GiB 8200 3 16783360 151001087 64.0 GiB 8E00 4 151001088 285218815 64.0 GiB 8E00 5 285218816 419436543 64.0 GiB 8E00 6 419436544 553654271 64.0 GiB 8E00 7 553654272 1953525134 667.5 GiB 8300 [...] Expert command (? for help): a Partition number (1-7): 3 [...] Attribute value is 0000000000000000. Set fields are: No fields set Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): 2 Have enabled the 'legacy BIOS bootable' attribute. Attribute value is 0000000000000004. Set fields are: 2 (legacy BIOS bootable) Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): w I know this needs to be followed by more steps... the reference refers to Syslinux but we're using GRUB. It says: 2. Next, mount the partition somewhere, say in /mnt/data 3. Use [GRUB2] to install the boot loader, pretending that it is a regular partition: 4. Copy [ ? ] which is capable of booting GPT partition to the disk's MBR. What is needed to fill the two [...]? The mbr's first 446 bytes are non-empty, but possibly incompatible with bios.
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BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-01 20:00 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-12-01 21:00 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-02 19:30 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-12-02 20:30 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-02 03:00 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-02 05:10 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-02 20:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-03 04:50 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-04 00:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-04 06:20 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-04 06:30 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-04 15:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-05 01:50 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-12-04 16:30 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-05 02:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-05 07:00 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-06 00:20 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-07 07:00 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-12-05 23:30 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-05 22:50 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-04 03:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-12-02 22:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-03 00:20 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-12-03 00:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-12-03 05:50 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-03 11:00 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-03 12:50 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-03 18:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-03 19:10 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-03 20:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-03 20:20 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-03 22:00 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-03 23:00 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-03 23:50 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-04 00:50 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-05 00:50 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-05 03:40 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-06 23:20 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-07 00:10 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-07 21:50 +0100
Re: (OT) BIOS Can Not Find Disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-08 00:10 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-03 11:10 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-02-21 04:10 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-02-21 23:20 +0100
Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-02-22 02:20 +0100
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