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sposa03
21-01-2013, 05:34 PM
This morning I woke up to this error - "Reboot and Select proper boot device" on my ubuntu installation.

I've checked to see that the BIOS detects the hard drive and it does, I also went through the installation process again and it detected the hard drive there, however when I use fdisk and having booted from a bootable disc, it can't find the drive.

Does anyone know how to resolve this?
Thanks in advance, Sposa03.

Collider
21-01-2013, 07:22 PM
Try setting boot device to cd rom then HD if you havent.

alanjg007
21-01-2013, 08:52 PM
you can download something called Boot Repair (http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/) i used it when linux mint stopped booting. Just burn to disk and load from dvd drive.



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