AwaitingUserInput
September 17th, 2014, 09:03 PM
I have a computer with 2 hard drives:
64 GB SSD
500 GB regular disk drive
The 64 GB SSD used to be used as a Windows 7 cache drive. I mention this because there may be some remnants of a Windows bootloader on there, but I'm not sure how these things work, so I may be wrong.
During installation, on the SSD I created and formatted 1 partition as ext4, and did a manual install where I told it to use that drive as the "/" mount point. I also told the installer to put the bootloader on that drive when it asked where I want the bootloader.
On the HDD I formatted 1 partition as ext3, and made it the /home mount point.
I did not make a swap partition, as I plan to make a swap file and put it on the HDD after the fact.
Everything seemed to work but when I rebooted the computer I get the message, "Loading operating system..." Then "Boot from CD/DVD:" on the next line is a blinking cursor and the computer is stuck there.
Can anyone tell me what I may have done wrong and how to get my machine to boot into the OS?
64 GB SSD
500 GB regular disk drive
The 64 GB SSD used to be used as a Windows 7 cache drive. I mention this because there may be some remnants of a Windows bootloader on there, but I'm not sure how these things work, so I may be wrong.
During installation, on the SSD I created and formatted 1 partition as ext4, and did a manual install where I told it to use that drive as the "/" mount point. I also told the installer to put the bootloader on that drive when it asked where I want the bootloader.
On the HDD I formatted 1 partition as ext3, and made it the /home mount point.
I did not make a swap partition, as I plan to make a swap file and put it on the HDD after the fact.
Everything seemed to work but when I rebooted the computer I get the message, "Loading operating system..." Then "Boot from CD/DVD:" on the next line is a blinking cursor and the computer is stuck there.
Can anyone tell me what I may have done wrong and how to get my machine to boot into the OS?