On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:23:59 +0200, Hauke Fath wrote: > It also looks as if some notebooks (I have my hands o an HP 2170p here) > blindly assume UEFI when they find a gpt formatted disk, even when > advised to attempt a "legacy boot".
I'll have to explore this <http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/GPT-drive-BootDevice-Not-found/td-p/5053274>, though - our protective mbr # fdisk sd0 [snip] Partition table: 0: GPT Protective MBR (sysid 238) start 1, size 234441647 (114473 MB, Cyls 0/0/2-14593/80/63) PBR is not bootable: Bad magic number (0x0000) 1: <UNUSED> 2: <UNUSED> 3: <UNUSED> No active partition. does not mark the gpt "partition" as active, either. Cheerio, hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344