>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Bogstad <bogs...@pobox.com> writes:
Bill> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Laura Conrad <su...@laymusic.org> Bill> wrote: Bill> My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu Bill> installed Bill> on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been Bill> clobbered. The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a Bill> /boot Bill> directory that looks normal to me. Bill> I rebooted it a couple of days ago because of a new kernel, and it Bill> wouldn't boot. Bill> It says it can't find an OS. I have tried boot-repair, and it Bill> thinks Bill> it has repaired things, but I still get the message about not Bill> being able Bill> to find an os. Bill> Can you give the exact error message? Error 1962: No operating system found. Bill> "Can't find an OS" type messages could even be from the BIOS Bill> which might mean that your boot block is corrupted or your Bill> boot partition isn't marked bootable. I assume it is from the bios, because Grub never comes up. I have been trying via gparted and boot-repair to fix this, but it still give me the message. I'm going to try Richard's suggestion of SystemRescueCD next, but I don't have a lot of hope. I assume this is UEFI or GPT or one of the other things that makes installing linux harder than it used to be. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) <https://plus.google.com/u/0/116029698292079786511> (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 <http://www.laymusic.org/> <http://www.serpentpublications.org> Inquisitor: What did you do in the Great War? James Joyce: I wrote Ulysses. Tom Stoppard, _Travesties_ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss