From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 1 20:10:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E616951 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 20:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jw3mlreader@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vb0-x231.google.com (mail-vb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c02::231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64611527 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 20:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f49.google.com with SMTP id s24so427368vbi.22 for ; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:10:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rovrqGyVzr/A3tA1ZGLHYzDW/eIMITSqFZEG+uRqoWc=; b=kqkOST2iG/atyPrvnjjSrqaidq9JoAmVLROfvLdxcsoPwafkD16Rg5fpSTNSlgDX+H q2sJOdkEE4p+RoSsdSL8MsvW5eQkYcEGJFbj6jhUrI5go+X05w5jW7QgrJBTZVrzJ8HR ygeM1KX90mcyVxOoMyEDEgUYyF8s9YbhH6jRWdLfWBLZ758wANGykBBe67kZAeaMa065 w9xro5eKYlsDA85cHkvzmkOH4L09QFSkO1drkCesuNMDSkJ0/143qybSJ2SwiZ5GZYrH sSbjvNmgEfnX1PkeuWZsbduqnaLWmh3otUULxiXH1PCyzhb+yR7eDZqgSjIS80/VcMJ7 /rMw== X-Received: by 10.52.74.34 with SMTP id q2mr3897407vdv.76.1362168649346; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.255.0.100] (pool-173-53-89-218.rcmdva.fios.verizon.net. [173.53.89.218]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id dh7sm2835228vdb.0.2013.03.01.12.10.48 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:10:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51310B47.60405@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:10:47 -0500 From: Butch Whitby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130201 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot install on HP Pavilion References: <512BDCA5.6060202@mail.com> In-Reply-To: <512BDCA5.6060202@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:10:50 -0000 On 02/25/2013 16:50, Jeff Tipton wrote: > On 02/25/2013 22:39, Russell Murphy wrote: >> ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed > Isn't this a BIOS message about a failing harddisk? > > http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Operating-Systems-e-g-Windows-8-Software-Recovery/Error-no-boot-disk-has-been-detected-or-the-disk-has-failed/td-p/1495065 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Are you sure the bootloader installed correctly? Also, in the bios, what is the drive type set to? I've seen that happen on a Lenovo when the drive type is set to AHCI. Changing it to either legacy or normal (don't recall which one) allowed the machine to boot from the hard disk without issue. -- Butch "Why is there never time to do it right the first time, but there is always time to do it again?"