On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Angelo Moreschini mrangelo.fedora@gmail.com wrote:
I already had some problem to install fedora on HP pavilion 500, but at last I was able to finish the installation.
I got the message: "installation complete" and so I did the shutdown.
The computer closed regular, (the system is going down for power out at ...) but when I try to open it again, I find this message on the screen:
boot device not found
please install an operating system on your hard disk
Hard DISK - (3F0) F2 - System Diagnostics
for more information visit the site http://h18021.www1.hp.com/helpandsupport/hp-self-support.html
The site don't explain nothing about a problem connected with linux
and after running diagnostic I get the message : ERROR: no boot disk has been detected
Curious. This is the 3rd such report in just a couple months, including myself. In my case it was intermittent though and Dell support concluded either logic board or SSD flakiness; and also mine was a dual boot scenario and sometimes happened even with Windows only installed on the system (and all Fedora NVRAM entries cleared).
The fact that your on-board diagnostic doesn't see a drive suggests a hardware problem. But I wonder if there's something (efbootmgr + kernel tickling the firmware's NVRAM?) about Fedora that's instigating this? Or if it's just coincidence. I guess the sample size isn't big enough to know.
What happens if you boot from install media, and capture both dmesg efiboomgr -v ?
In my case, dmesg clearly showed the lack of proper ACPI initialization, no drive was found at all.