[mdlug] Can't boot from SSD?

[Peter Bart]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 13:55:23 +0000
"Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:

> I stuck the SSD into my system. I only have two 6gbps SATA ports, so
> I bumped one of my hard drives down to a 3gbps port. So now, I have:
> 
> 6gbps: SSD
> 6gbps: Hard drive (Windows)
> 3gbps: Hard drive (Linux)
> 3gbps: Hard drive (data)
> 3gbps: Optical drive
> 
> It was the Linux drive that got bumped. Naturally, after that, since
> the SSD was unpartitioned, the BIOS looked at the next drive in line,
> found the Windows MBR, and booted into Windows instead of Grub. So
> far, that's what I expected.
> 
> But then I booted with a Xubuntu live CD, set up a Linux partition on
> the SSD, and tried to reinstall grub. No dice.
> 
> So I just went ahead and had it install Xubuntu 13.10 into that SSD
> partition, and when I rebooted... still straight to Windows. This is
> confusing. It's like the BIOS refuses to boot off the SSD, doesn't
> even see the boot manager there. Has anyone run into something like
> this before?


	Did you set up a /boot partition for Xubuntu or should it also
	boot from the MBR? Might it be something in the bios not
	recognizing the SSD interface type? Or must you set boot order
	in BIOS?
-- 
Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber
<petertheplumber at att.net>