Hi,
I created an USB stick using the ImageWriter on my ThinkPad T440p laptop. Booted from the stick, installed normally the operating system (with the proposed layout: resizing the existing Windows 8.1 ntfs partition and creation of an extended partition containing a swap partition, a btrfs partition for / and an XFS for /home - don’t ask why, it was proposed that way). Anyway, the install went smoothly, and in the end, after rebooting, the system entered an infinite “BIOS level reboot loop”. I call it “BIOS level” because now the system will not even boot from the stick anymore. It will reboot continuously, although I can choose from the BIOS Boot menu to boot from USB, HDD, etc (it just ignores the option and goes on to reboot again and again). If I physically take out the SSD drive, then I can boot from the USB stick. The SSD isn’t broken, it’s perfectly usable if inserted in an USB disk bay, it’s just that those records written by GRUB somehow totally messed up the BIOS booting sequence.
Any ideas about how to fix this ? (I tried with Microsoft’s bootsect.exe with and without /mbr run for this disk on a different Windows machine … but it didn’t change anything)
On Sat 25 Oct 2014 02:06:01 PM CDT, edykory wrote:
Hi,
I created an USB stick using the ImageWriter on my ThinkPad T440p
laptop. Booted from the stick, installed normally the operating system
(with the proposed layout: resizing the existing Windows 8.1 ntfs
partition and creation of an extended partition containing a swap
partition, a btrfs partition for / and an XFS for /home - don’t ask why,
it was proposed that way). Anyway, the install went smoothly, and in the
end, after rebooting, the system entered an infinite “BIOS level reboot
loop”. I call it “BIOS level” because now the system will not even boot
from the stick anymore. It will reboot continuously, although I can
choose from the BIOS Boot menu to boot from USB, HDD, etc (it just
ignores the option and goes on to reboot again and again). If I
physically take out the SSD drive, then I can boot from the USB stick.
The SSD isn’t broken, it’s perfectly usable if inserted in an USB disk
bay, it’s just that those records written by GRUB somehow totally messed
up the BIOS booting sequence.
Any ideas about how to fix this ? (I tried with Microsoft’s bootsect.exe
with and without /mbr run for this disk on a different Windows machine
… but it didn’t change anything)
Thanks.
Hi
There should be no extended partition, since it should be UEFI and GPT
disk. Sounds like you booted your image in legacy mode?
When you pull the ssd and boot, is this in uefi mode?
If you insert the ssd in your usb bay and then post the full output
from;
fdisk -l /dev/sdX
gdisk -l /dev/sdX
Where sdX is the ssd in the usb drive bay.
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