-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-08-11 01:06, Billie Walsh wrote:
Didn't want to hijack the hard drive controller thread so.............
I have a computer that says there is no hard drive when turned on. Then goes ahead and boots just fine.
A few weeks ago my Windows computer popped up a warning that the hard drive was in imminent danger of dying do to mechanical issues.
That's SMART. I mean, look up the acronym SMART in the Wikipedia, related to hard disks. In Linux, the same warning is given by the smartd daemon.
I immediately moved all the important information off the hard drive. Bought a new drive and cloned the old one. Now the computer says no bootable drive then boots as normal.
Possibly your BIOS has defined to boot from a device that does not exist, gives the message, then continues to try the next device in the list. Or... It fails initially, tries again later, it works. Or... as Felix says, the cmos data is blank, then goes to defaults. Several scenarios :-) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXJQ9gACgkQja8UbcUWM1x05QD+IuAteQpf/3Ksruq3Y0lhHYxk 56z5OeRgBCuZg3chBXEA/0LR+EqSHALKtvlLZeT2eUowKM/pvzwl8G4yltdvK4Ro =SxPh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org