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General Tech => Hardware => : shome January 12, 2015, 08:55:04 AM

: HP Box will not boot
: shome January 12, 2015, 08:55:04 AM

I'll try to give as much info as possible. I recently purchased a bare bones HP Compaq desktop off ebay. Got a killer deal on it, won the auction for like $52 bucks, so I initially was a happy camper. I received the machine, and installed ubuntu on it, and when I went to boot to the OS, it goes right to the grub rescue menu 'grub> ' . I'm still pretty new to linux, so I did some googling, played with cfdisk, even created a new /boot partition on my next install, and still received the same issues.

I even yanked the hdd, and formatted a brand new 750 gb hdd that I own, and am still having the same issues. For some reason it won't boot at all, and I receive this message prior to the grub menu, "error: /dev/sd0 not found" . I wasn't sure if it was supposed to mount the hdd as sda1, which was my previous experience. Last night I even reset the CMOS as a last effort to restore the machine to factory settings, but still is not going my way.

Any suggestions ?   - or google pointers for better search efforts.
(All of the hardware is intact properly, and the machine is basically brand new. The hdd is on a SATA connection, so i'm thinking of maybe switching the SATA port.)

I appreciate any input. 

: Re: HP Box will not boot
: Kulverstukas January 12, 2015, 11:45:05 AM

Did you try to install another system? maybe ubuntu has some issues with it.

: Re: HP Box will not boot
: Syntax990 January 12, 2015, 11:54:27 AM

: Kulverstukas  January 12, 2015, 11:45:05 AM

Did you try to install another system? maybe ubuntu has some issues with it.

Couldn't put it better myself.

Re-download Ubuntu and try again? If it's still not working then install Ubuntu to your Master Boot Record rather than installing Grub. Then you can install Grub later.

: Re: HP Box will not boot
: Pak_Track January 12, 2015, 03:26:46 PM

Try booting to a USB. And do the hard drives show up in BIOS? Also, re-download ubuntu and/or try a different distro.

: Re: HP Box will not boot
: d4rkcat January 12, 2015, 03:43:59 PM

Sounds like a hard drive/SATA cable/port issue to me.
Try using a cable you know works, try changing the port it's plugged into.
When you download any distro be sure to sha256sum it to make sure it isn't corrupted.
Hardware incompatibility with linux is not really a thing nowdays, anything should work.