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Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails



On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:49:03 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:49:07 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 01:32:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:

> > > And I'm back from install 28, booted to the old install, the bios
> > > cannot see the drive I just installed to. So whats next? update the
> > > bios? I'll make mnt points and look at it. but the install went
> > > nicely. It just won't even see it to boot it.  Can I shut down and
> > > swap cables to make this drive the first plug rather than the 5th of
> > > 6 mainboard plugs?
> > 
> > Check which drive is actually set to boot first in the boot order.
> > 
> > If you've installed with UEFI, then make sure that you're set to boot a
> > UEFI disk.
> > 
> I repeat, no EUFI. IMO its just something else to suffer bit rot from a 
> stray alpha particle. You've not been told recently that dd-wrt is my 
> guard dog, with very sharp teeth. I have not been touched in 24 years.

The stone wall along our garden is probably 50 years old, and has
about as much relevance to UEFI as dd-wrt.

But it does appear that you have a UEFI machine, guard dog or no.

Cheers,
David.


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