Okay, your bios settings are messed up on that computer. You need to go into bios settings and give them some clues about what's actually on the computer in terms of hardware. The bios settings on your machine have lost their mind somehow.
On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Ray Dillinger wrote: > > I have a strange problem where my computer does not recognize *ANY* boot > device > or boot medium other than one single hard drive where a badly configured > debian > linux is installed. I don't think the particulars of that messed-up install > are relevant, but I've put a note about it at the bottom just in case. > > I don't understand how it can possibly happen, because I have completely > unplugged > that hard drive, flashed the BIOS of the machine with the most recent update, > installed > a brand new blank hard drive, and it *STILL* doesn't recognize any boot medium > or > boot device unless I plug the drive with that messed-up install back in. > > The machine is an Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard, IA64 "Sandy Bridge" > architecture, > with an ASUS SATA DVD-ROM in the chassis and a generic DVD-ROM attached via > USB2. If > I don't have the single bootable hard drive (incidentally a 3 TB Seagate > drive) > installed in the chassis, NO device will boot. And if I do have it installed > in > the chassis, no OTHER device will boot. > > I want to fix my confused install by creating a clean "Jessie/Testing" system > to > migrate data to. But when I put a bootable 'Jessie' netinst disk into it (in > either > drive) and a blank hard disk to format for a new system, and I get > > "No Operating System Found" if I go straight into the BIOS boot menu and tell > it > to boot off the drive that contains the netinst disk, or > > "No bootable medium found; Please insert bootable disk into boot drive and > press any > key" if I set the boot order so that the drive with the netinst is included. > > I have also tried booting directly from a USB stick; it does exactly the same > thing. > > My main relevant current limitation in using the messed up install is that > "su" and > "sudo" are both broken; to do anything as root, I have to be logged in as > root. > There are some others, and lots of documentation that's just plain wrong about > where > things are installed etc, but not being able to su or sudo is the most > annoying. > > > My messed up install started as "Sarge" in a different IA64 machine a long > time ago, > got upgraded to "Lenny" and then "Wheezy" when "Wheezy" was still > experimental. > "Wheezy" was very definitely not ready for prime time, and I did some major > config > hacking just to get a usable KDE desktop on it. Used it that way for several > years, then I moved the drive to the current chassis and motherboard and > "sorted > out" several new issues that that caused, by hand. Next I wanted something > from > the "Experimental" distro, so I downloaded it - and forgot to take > "Experimental" > out of my debian sources list immediately afterward. Over the next couple of > weeks, about half the software got "upgraded" to flaky versions not available > in > "Wheezy". I started trying to sort out issues and do configuration, and I > wound > up with a bizarre mutant hybrid. > > Then I realized I had "Experimental" in my sources, got rid of it, Added > "Testing" > (which by this time was Jessie heading into the current freeze), and used dpkg > to > get RID OF every version of everything that it couldn't still download. That > broke > a bunch of stuff, and I've managed fix some by hand and work around the rest > of it > for several weeks now. I don't see how it can be relevant when this drive > isn't > even attached and I'm still having this problem, but if you can think of any > reason > why it might be, do let me know. > > Anyway, this is driving me bonkers. If anybody has any clues as to what could > be > wrong on such a basic level as to affect boot behavior on a blank hard drive > and a > net install disk, and that immediately after flashing the BIOS, please do let > me know. > > Bear > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdash...@shellworld.net> Avoid the Gates Of Hell, use Linux! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1311090352590.51...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
