On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:19:13 +0000 Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: Wrong button. Let's try again:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:01 -0500 > Dan Norton <dnor...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > > > After POST, the following appears: > > > > [...] > > PXE-E53: No boot filename received > > PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. > > ERROR:No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. > > > > Isn't that because the primary is not mounted to /boot? This goes back to before anything even knows what or where /boot is, or partitions, or LVM, or anything. Some code needs to be written to the drive to get the whole process started and to call grub. The hardware will reset to the very beginning of the drive, and it needs to find the first stage of a bootloader there. At the moment, it isn't. > > > > Sorry to be so dense, but how do I "have the primary mounted > > to /boot?" At this point, with apparently nothing to lose, I'd get back into the new installation with the boot disc, then try: grub-install /dev/<your drive, not a partition> (which will get some bootloader code in place) update-grub (which will look around, configure grub to find its own / and /boot and any other installed OSes, and recreate an initial ramdisk) It looks as if no bootloader code was written to the drive during installation. Let us hope that whatever prevented it does not prevent grub-install from working. -- Joe
