Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-04 07:32 (UTC-0500): Note your posts are still coming from the future. Today ATM in zone -0500 it is still the 3rd of December.
> Felix Miata wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that was not OP's intent, i.e., none of Grub at all in MBR. > Yes, no grub in mbr - unless installer insists. ... > FWIW, this done just now: > # gdisk /dev/sda > GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10 > Partition table scan: > MBR: protective > BSD: not present > APM: not present > GPT: present > Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. > Command (? for help): b > Enter backup filename to save: mbrforgpt > The operation has completed successfully. > Command (? for help): q I don't see anything above to indicate a boot flag has been set anywhere. That HP might have firmware that insists one exists. http://www.lightofdawn.org/wiki/wiki.cgi/BIOSBootGPT > # ls -l mbr* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17920 Dec 4 05:47 mbrforgpt > # mc -v mbrforgpt > The above shows 0x55AA at +0x1FE (Boot signature [1]). That proves a partition table exists, not whether there is requisite code in the 446 bytes preceding the table. > Also, the search for 'ERROR:' is not found in the entire 17920 bytes of > file mbrforgpt. 'ERROR: ' you are encountering is coming from the BIOS/firmware, not anything on the disk. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record > Apparently, all is in readiness. It's simply that this PC is not loading > the mbr or anything else from sda. Any other opinions? <all, or you wouldn't be getting the ERROR: message. :-p -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/