ButtDyno
May 22nd, 2009, 06:08 AM
So I'm installing 8.0.4 (I already had the ISO) on a spare laptop.
It stopped booting into Windows a while ago and we assumed it was the hard drive. So I bought another one, but it doesn't fit. I decided to try installing Ubuntu onto the old disk anyway. I boot off the CD, it sees my hard drive, it wipes it out and copies everything over. It tells me to eject the CD, I do, and when it reboots... it says no bootable device.
Crap!
So I boot off the CD, figuring oh well, at least I can boot into the CD environment. I decide to try the "boot from local disk" option on a whim. Much to my surprise, it works. Eh?
Anyone know what would cause this to happen? The hard drive works fine, EXCEPT when I'm trying to boot it up. I've never seen anything like this.
thanks,
john
p.s. not my first cup of ubuntu... been using it for a year or so, and been using Linux since 1997.
It stopped booting into Windows a while ago and we assumed it was the hard drive. So I bought another one, but it doesn't fit. I decided to try installing Ubuntu onto the old disk anyway. I boot off the CD, it sees my hard drive, it wipes it out and copies everything over. It tells me to eject the CD, I do, and when it reboots... it says no bootable device.
Crap!
So I boot off the CD, figuring oh well, at least I can boot into the CD environment. I decide to try the "boot from local disk" option on a whim. Much to my surprise, it works. Eh?
Anyone know what would cause this to happen? The hard drive works fine, EXCEPT when I'm trying to boot it up. I've never seen anything like this.
thanks,
john
p.s. not my first cup of ubuntu... been using it for a year or so, and been using Linux since 1997.