Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Robert S a écrit : (Excuse ignorance) How do you display whether a partition is bootable? It used to be easy with cfdisk, but I can't find the option in gdisk or the newer fdisk. Your disk uses the new GPT partition format. You can display whether the legacy boot flag for a GPT partition

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-13 Thread Robert S
I have managed to make my system bootable by installing LILO. Could somebody let me know if this is likely to be obsoleted any time? I haven't received any indication that it will be. Have you explored the new bios settings? If we can assume it is a real working update, you might have some

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/12/2015 11:22 PM, Robert S wrote: Sadly this problem started AFTER I upgraded my BIOS. I have tried installing debian (AMD64) from scratch and am unable to boot from this either. I can't find any way to downgrade the BIOS and there is only one BIOS upgrade file on the Gigabyte website.

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-12 Thread Robert S
I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I had a similar problem with a laptop. I resolved it