On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Laura Conrad <su...@laymusic.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "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. > Could be. Googling for that exact error message and "ubuntu" finds quite a few references about legacy BIOS vs. UEFI booting for a wide range of Lenovo systems. At least one suggested that a BIOS upgrade might help. You might try reading some of the discussions found by doing the search and see what makes sense to you. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
