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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are you able to try selecting the disk to boot from using the BIOS/UEFi menu, instead of relying on the boot order? I’d try that and see if one of the options boots into Pop!_OS, then make sure that option was first (or 2nd behind booting to USB)
Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I tried changing the order in Bios and switching order manually with F12. Same result. : (
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hmm… this is weird. I would say try changing the boot mode between UEFI vs legacy BIOS, but I see that you already have…
If possible, can you boot to live Linux USB and use the fdisk/gparted tool to inspect the partitions? If you can post a pic/screenshot of the partition info that might give us some more info.
What steps did you take to manually parition? Is the boot partition formatted with an EXT4 file system?
Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Sorry this is taking so long between replies. You know, life stuff…
So I’m still at "Operating system not found”.
Here are screen captures taken with the Pop_OS live usb. First is from Disks, second is GParted.
Am I crazy or there’s no boot partition?
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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’re not crazy, I don’t see a boot partition either. So, that makes sense that it cannot boot. I think the simplest path forward will be to try installing another distro, and disconnect all hard drives besides the one you want to install to, if there are multiple drives in the machine.