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My booting problem

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:54 pm
by redneo
I was installing LMDE on my desktop using a usb flashdrive and after finshing it I rebooted and got this.

PXE_M0F: exiting intel boot agent.
No bootable device insert bootdisk

Now I used the same flashdrive with LMDE on it and installed both my laptop and netbook. I have tried other
programs like the live usb creator to put lmde on it and got the same thing. Tried a disc install samething
but I can install Lisa no problem or other os with no problems any Ideas.

Re: My booting problem

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:18 am
by noodlyappendage
Anything special about this box? For example:
- multiple disk drives?
- multiple OSes installed?
- multiple existing partitions?
- RAID?

Re: My booting problem

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:08 am
by redneo
just an extra drive for storage. no dual booting and the only partition is whats done during the install and no raid

Re: My booting problem

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:29 am
by noodlyappendage
OK, any chance that the boot order in the BIOS is picking the storage drive to boot from instead of the OS drive?

Re: My booting problem

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:57 am
by spandey
I guess 2 possibillities.. It has new BIOS i.e. EFI boot or you installed GRUB into USB itself.

Boot from Live USB and use option 'boot from hard disk' in the Liveusb menu..

Re: My booting problem

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 2:53 pm
by redneo
I unplug the second hard drive the boot order in the bios is cd,floppy,hard drive, and ethernet. What is efi boot
And is a guide to installing grub manually on the forums

Re: My booting problem

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:06 pm
by noodlyappendage
You can follow this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
or if that seems too scary, just reinstall from the DVD.

Re: My booting problem

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:00 pm
by redneo
I looked at the ubuntu guide looks like a piece of cake how much of a different is this on mint? Do I add apt-get or anything else or is it the same and should I use lmde or Lisa