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Ubuntu will not boot from hard drive

Asked by tutenator

I burned a DVD of Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 both 32 and 64 bit versions. Every disk worked fine and I was able to "Try Ubuntu" and work within the live enviroment from the DVD's. The problem is when I install Ubunto on my hard drive. The installation process goes along just fine no matter what version I use and I have done this on 3 seperate hard drives. However, when I try to boot to Ubuntu from the hard drive, I get a message that reads that there is no bootable disk and please choose a drive to boot from. So basically the BIOS/system can't see the OS or Bootloader. I have made the hard drive #1 in boot order and have even unplugged the dvd drive and still nothing. I have even tried using the thumbdrive installation with the same result. Everything seemed to run fine in all installation procedures it just failed to boot from the hard drive.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you set the HDD as the bootable device in BIOS?
Are you using RAID?
Do you get web access in the live CD desktop?

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tutenator (toneytuten) said : 		#2

HDD is a bootable device in BIOs. No I am not using RAID. And yes, I was able to browse the Internet. I tried a few times to install on the HDD while hooked up to the internet as recommended for updates and what not. Then I tried without being hooked up to the internet.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you run:

sudo fdisk -l

in the liveCD you will see your3 drives and their partitions. Which drive did you install Ubuntu to?

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cwr32 (cwr32) said : 		#4

I like the answer but I have to try it on a HP Pentium computer with a 9 GB harddrive with ubuntu 8.04 LTS the only thing I am getting is the GRUB> menu. I will use the sudo fdisk-1 and see which drive partition I will run the install on I have Windows XP
Professional and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on the other in a dual-boot configuration. I will try from the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS CD. I will try and
see how it works.

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