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    Problem with booting ubuntu

    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.

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    Re: Problem with booting ubuntu

    Try setting boot device to cd rom then HD if you havent.

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    Re: Problem with booting ubuntu

    you can download something called Hidden Content i used it when linux mint stopped booting. Just burn to disk and load from dvd drive.


    • Easy-to-use (repair in 1 click ! )
    • Free (GPL open-source license)
    • Helpful (Boot-Info summary to get help by email or on your favorite forum)
    • Safe (automatic backups)
    • Can recover access to Windows (XP, Vista, Windows7, Windows8).
    • Can recover access to Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux...
    • Can recover access to any OS (Windows, MacOS, Linux..) if your PC contains Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux, or derivative.
    • Can repair MBR-locked OEM computer boot if the original bootsector has been saved by Hidden Content
    • Can repair the boot when you have the "GRUB Recovery" error message
    • Options to reinstall GRUB2/GRUB1 bootloader easily (OS by default, purge, unhide, kernel options..)
    • and much more ! (UEFI, SecureBoot, RAID, LVM, Wubi, filesystem repair...)
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