Just edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the title.
Thanks! Done. M
]]>fdisk /dev/sda
a (choose bootable option)
Then choose each partition to toggle it.
Thanks for all your help people.
M
]]>... is there a way to do this through fdisk ...?
You can actually answer that question yourself. I'll give you a hint: Look under 'extra functionality (experts only)' in fdisk
]]>Could you please help me manually mark the correct partition to boot from, using fdisk? How do I check the MBR code?
It doesn't matter which partition to mark, grub does not rely on the bootable flag, so in case your BIOS really have this "false sanity check", you can just mark any one of them as bootable. (It matters if you turn to syslinux or so though)
How do I check the MBR code?
[root@localhost ~]# hexdump -C -n 512 /dev/sda
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
000001c0 02 00 ee ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 23 7b 94 03 00 00 |..........#{....|
000001d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200
(Mine is a "PMBR" on a "GPT disk" without any legacy bootloader installed)
]]>@Trilby - The bios has always been configured to boot from the hard disk, however this was one of the first things I checked. This issue isn't it.
@Rookie - thanks for the tip.
Could you please help me manually mark the correct partition to boot from, using fdisk? How do I check the MBR code? Again, I have run grub-install, however something isn't right.
Thanks everyone for your quick replies.
]]>(edit: third possibility below)
]]>I've configured the wireless, installed the base system, and setup grub
How did you do that -- what instructions did you follow? Sounds like you missed the `grub-install /dev/sdX` stage of setting up grub.
]]>So far:
Have installed using the newbie guide and seemingly set everything up. Possibly an issue with grub? I'm using a L321x dell xps 13 ultrabook - this was before uefi was a thing. There's not much I can actually change in the bios - other than selecting which disk to boot from it's pretty basic.
I've configured the wireless, installed the base system, and setup grub - only on rebooting, I get the error message 'Operation system not found'. Can still boot from the installation usb and arch-chroot into root - what else can I try?
Thanks.
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