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Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk



On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:57:37PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:50:12PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:
> > Disklabel type: gpt
> 
> > Apparently, BIOS does not see a bootable device. In the dim past, fdisk
> > could set a partition as "active", which was its euphemism for "bootable".
> > However now:
> 
> GPT disk labels don't have active/bootable partitions.  That's only
> a thing in msdos (a.k.a. mbr) disk labels.

And: since this is GPT, you want to use a tool like cgdisk
instead of fdisk.

-dsr-


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