reboot and select proper boot device

I bought a hard drive from John Thornton with linuxcnc loaded on it. I get the above error when I start it up.

I looked at the boot options and priorities. It lists the new hard drive by model and serial number. I changed the boot order a bunch of different ways, but it won't boot.

I am putting together a new spare computer for my cnc mill. Everything is new, hard drive, motherboard, power supply, case, etc.

My cnc machine uses Mesa 5i25, 7i85, 8i20, 7i84, 7i83.

Press F12 ( in some cases F8 or F11 or F2 ) to choose a boot device, on new motherboards there are now two types of storage devices ( USB flash included ), so you usually get "UEFI name_of_boot_DEVICE" or plain "name_of_boot_device"
Try both of those types, as they are not the same, and not interchangeable.

Personally, i hated UEFI even before it went to market, back when it was just a draft, so i just disable it totally whenever possible, but on new boards it is not possible, and on new laptops there is no option of using the non UEFI boot.

I get an Asrock UEFI screen, It lists a AHCI PO name_of_boot_DEVICE.

I think that I have it set correctly.

@John,

Remember..

I bought a hard drive from John Thornton with linuxcnc loaded on it.
I get the above error when I start it up.

Did you ask JT first about your problem?

I don't like this situation... My girl friend would say to you : First ask at your supplier bitch.

I hate to bother John T. with my stupid beginner questions.

Hey, I'm here... check the SATA cable, you may have a bad one. I test boot each drive after copying the master hard drive. Boot with only the hard drive so you don't have to make a choice at boot up.

I got your message but could not understand it exactly so I sent you an email.

When things don't go the way you expect you ask questions.

JT

tommylight wrote: Press F12 ( in some cases F8 or F11 or F2 ) to choose a boot device, on new motherboards there are now two types of storage devices ( USB flash included ), so you usually get "UEFI name_of_boot_DEVICE" or plain "name_of_boot_device"
Try both of those types, as they are not the same, and not interchangeable.

Personally, i hated UEFI even before it went to market, back when it was just a draft, so i just disable it totally whenever possible, but on new boards it is not possible, and on new laptops there is no option of using the non UEFI boot.

Tommy, I normally don't use UEFI, if his hardware is so new it only does UEFI that could also be the problem?

JT

Grotius wrote: @John,

Remember..

I bought a hard drive from John Thornton with linuxcnc loaded on it.
I get the above error when I start it up.

Did you ask JT first about your problem?

I don't like this situation... My girl friend would say to you : First ask at your supplier bitch.

Most of the time the folks here know more than me lol...

JT

BigJohnT wrote:

tommylight wrote: Press F12 ( in some cases F8 or F11 or F2 ) to choose a boot device, on new motherboards there are now two types of storage devices ( USB flash included ), so you usually get "UEFI name_of_boot_DEVICE" or plain "name_of_boot_device"
Try both of those types, as they are not the same, and not interchangeable.

Personally, i hated UEFI even before it went to market, back when it was just a draft, so i just disable it totally whenever possible, but on new boards it is not possible, and on new laptops there is no option of using the non UEFI boot.

Tommy, I normally don't use UEFI, if his hardware is so new it only does UEFI that could also be the problem?

JT

Some 4 days ago i had to check a Dell Vostro laptop, it does not boot from anything but UEFI, so that makes things really messed up since it is known to have many issues.
Normal PC's still tend to have normal boot, at least all that i have dealt with.
It is agravating to see how the industry accepts and pushes really bad design decisions and we end up dealing with the fallout. Another example is USB C, to many damn pins doing to many things and no clear reference of it, and the part tha normally breaks is lokated in the device, not in the cable, so any break renders the device useless.

I have spent most of a day exchanging hard drives and spare computers,

The new computer with new motherboard does not work with any hard drive.

The linuxcnc hard drive that I got from John T. does not work in any computer. I get either- reboot and select proper boot device,
or- black screen with white blinking underscore on the upper left.

Some of the windows7 equipped hard drives start right up , but sometimes I get a message that says- your computer was unable to start, startup repairs,attempting repairs.

Sometimes the repairs work and other times they fail.